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Stheno · 30-01-2019 07:02PM

Moving house lads. Need broadband. Eir or Sky? Both the same price but free Eir sports with Eir

troyzer · 30-01-2019 07:06PM

Stheno wrote: »

Moving house lads. Need broadband. Eir or Sky? Both the same price but free Eir sports with Eir

By September Eir Sports probably won't have anything worth watching other than the world cup. It looks set to lose the Pro14 and Heineken Cup.

errlloyd · 30-01-2019 07:12PM

troyzer wrote: »

By September Eir Sports probably won't have anything worth watching other than the world cup. It looks set to lose the Pro14 and Heineken Cup.

Wait, why is Eirsport losing the Pro14 - they signed a 3 year deal last year?

sullivlo · 30-01-2019 07:14PM

Stheno wrote: »

Moving house lads. Need broadband. Eir or Sky? Both the same price but free Eir sports with Eir

Sky. Eir tv interface is awful.

Stheno · 30-01-2019 07:15PM

sullivlo wrote: »

Sky. Eir tv interface is awful.

Ah this is just broadband. Sky tv are installing in the new house for free as we've been with them so long.

30-01-2019 07:23PM

Do you get the eir sport channel through sky tv? Seems like a no brainer to go for the freebie

dregin · 30-01-2019 07:27PM

Stheno wrote: »

Moving house lads. Need broadband. Eir or Sky? Both the same price but free Eir sports with Eir

Inlaws moved from sky to eir. They say the quality of support has plummeted. Unless you're getting fibre from eir, avoid.

Stheno · 30-01-2019 07:30PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Do you get the eir sport channel through sky tv? Seems like a no brainer to go for the freebie

No it's extra. I was thinking it's a no brainer as well we've eir for bro asdband on a business contract in our current place and have had very few issues in 10 years.

Both of us work from home regularly and do a lot of Skype calls (up to four hours a day) so unless sky was amazing I'd stick with Eir

stephen_n · 30-01-2019 07:35PM

ClanofLams wrote: »

Someone sent it on to me, I hadn't realised at the time that the account was churning our videos like that. I still wouldn't believe that the comments are legitimate from different Irish people with one account each though.

if you were to read Donald Trumps Tweets without knowing who's account it was, you'd probably assume it's a bot. There is a lot of crazy out there and even more stupid.

Stheno · 30-01-2019 07:36PM

dregin wrote: »

Inlaws moved from sky to eir. They say the quality of support has plummeted. Unless you're getting fibre from eir, avoid.

It's fibre and both of us have mobile broadband with our work akso

troyzer · 30-01-2019 08:01PM

errlloyd wrote: »

troyzer wrote: »

By September Eir Sports probably won't have anything worth watching other than the world cup. It looks set to lose the Pro14 and Heineken Cup.

Wait, why is Eirsport losing the Pro14 - they signed a 3 year deal last year?

Not the Pro14 sorry, my bad. Just the Heineken Cup.

Squidgy Black · 30-01-2019 10:17PM

Stheno wrote: »

Ah this is just broadband. Sky tv are installing in the new house for free as we've been with them so long.

Same service pretty much. All runs on the same Fibre/DSL infrastructure.

Eir customer support is brutal as it's outsourced, but they also control the lines. If you've a line fault you'll get an eir engineer out, and in general Eir tend to prioritise their own customers. Although BT and Sky will tell you different but it's true.

Have a look at Vodafone, they tend to be a little cheaper than both.

30-01-2019 10:20PM

Eir are bringing all their customer service in house soon

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2018/0911/993137-eir-to-bring-950-customer-service-jobs-back-in-house/

Synode · 30-01-2019 10:23PM

I switched to Eir last year for all the rugby. Their broadband is brutal compared to Virgins. WiFi is atrocious and my wired desktop's Internet drops for no reason far too often. Fairly sure I'm going to switch again when my 18 months are up

irishbucsfan · 30-01-2019 11:03PM

stephen_n wrote: »

if you were to read Donald Trumps Tweets without knowing who's account it was, you'd probably assume it's a bot. There is a lot of crazy out there and even more stupid.

Yes. And those crazy people write the content that is being posted by bots

molloyjh · 31-01-2019 12:15AM

Synode wrote: »

I switched to Eir last year for all the rugby. Their broadband is brutal compared to Virgins. WiFi is atrocious and my wired desktop's Internet drops for no reason far too often. Fairly sure I'm going to switch again when my 18 months are up

I’d been having that issue too, but did the obvious thing lately that I’d never bothered trying (because it never worked before) and ran the diagnostic. There was some IP address issue that the diagnostic resolved and it’s all good since.

errlloyd · 31-01-2019 12:20AM

It's worth noting that Eir and Sky fibre broadband will probably be identical. (unless it's eir gigabyt). Same cable, same ****ty copper to the exchange, same throttling. So if the price is the same your choice is free pro14 and world cup with eir. Or better customer service with sky.

dregin · 31-01-2019 12:29AM

errlloyd wrote: »

It's worth noting that Eir and Sky fibre broadband will probably be identical. (unless it's eir gigabyt). Same cable, same ****ty copper to the exchange, same throttling. So if the price is the same your choice is free pro14 and world cup with eir. Or better customer service with sky.

I should have been clearer. I meant their gigabit offering (I'm reading the lower case 'mb' on the linked site as bit, not bytes as you say, but I could be wrong) - https://www.eir.ie/broadband/1000mb-fibre/

aloooof · 31-01-2019 12:02PM

Synode wrote: »

I switched to Eir last year for all the rugby. Their broadband is brutal compared to Virgins. WiFi is atrocious and my wired desktop's Internet drops for no reason far too often. Fairly sure I'm going to switch again when my 18 months are up

I've signed up recently to eir, only required a 12 month contract, so might plan on changing before the price is hiked up post-12 months.

thomond2006 · 31-01-2019 03:07PM

Squidgy Black wrote: »

It takes a special breed to like musicals. I'd rather have my ears chopped off.

There's no valid excuse for replacing a dialogue scene with a song.

Go see Blood Brothers the next time it's on near you. I guarantee you'll be converted.

31-01-2019 04:29PM

thomond2006 wrote: »

Go see Blood Brothers the next time it's on near you. I guarantee you'll be converted.

Definitely. Wouldn't be a huge musical fan either, but Blood Brothers is brilliant

Squidgy Black · 31-01-2019 11:04PM

Anyone used any of those sleep tracking apps? Or are they just BS?

31-01-2019 11:08PM

Squidgy Black wrote: »

Anyone used any of those sleep tracking apps? Or are they just BS?

Yeah I find them handy, I can track where Thomond is sleeping any night of the week.

Squidgy Black · 31-01-2019 11:10PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Yeah I find them handy, I can track where Thomond is sleeping any night of the week.

Some lovely hedges he's chosen over the past while in fairness.

I mean those sleep cycle tracking things. Some sh1te about 'light sleep' etc.

Dave_The_Sheep · 31-01-2019 11:29PM

The fitbit one seems to be fairly good, but admittedly I'm basing that on my own anecdotal evidence, but if you have one, recommended. I tried one or two just on the phone before I got it, but they seemed ... open to inaccuracies.

Zzippy · 01-02-2019 10:07AM

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

The fitbit one seems to be fairly good, but admittedly I'm basing that on my own anecdotal evidence, but if you have one, recommended. I tried one or two just on the phone before I got it, but they seemed ... open to inaccuracies.

How could a phone measure your sleep?

Squidgy Black · 01-02-2019 10:09AM

Zzippy wrote: »

How could a phone measure your sleep?

You're supposed to leave it down on your mattress near your head and it uses the mic and other sensors to monitor your breathing and any movements etc.

Absolutely no idea if it works though, I'd imagine there's a heap of things that would cause it to not get correct readings.

thomond2006 · 01-02-2019 10:21AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Yeah I find them handy, I can track where Thomond is sleeping any night of the week.

I look at my post count and I feel like I sleep in Boards...

Zzippy · 01-02-2019 10:23AM

thomond2006 wrote: »

I look at my post count and I feel like I sleep in Boards...

To the rest of us it just feels like you never sleep... jeez!

mfceiling · 01-02-2019 11:19AM

Squidgy Black wrote: »

You're supposed to leave it down on your mattress near your head and it uses the mic and other sensors to monitor your breathing and any movements etc.

Absolutely no idea if it works though, I'd imagine there's a heap of things that would cause it to not get correct readings.

I get all the data it collects but what do you actually do with it? If you have a habit of going into a light sleep at 4.30 a.m the phone can't do anything about that.

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