Imagine LTE Rural Broadband

_Puma_ · 24-10-2020 10:05pm

Gone from Tonabrocky, Galway

mossie · 24-10-2020 10:07pm

Wing126 wrote: »

My net is completely gone and no signal being received at the router. Anybody else having any issues?

Same here. I'm in north Cork.

RobertKK · 24-10-2020 10:09pm

Same in Kilkenny

sok2005 · 24-10-2020 10:11pm

Down in North Cork also, seems to be country wide. Is there anybody we can contact at this time about it?

xxyyzz · 24-10-2020 10:11pm

I think it's safe to say it's gone nationwide folks.

Wing126 · 24-10-2020 10:12pm

sok2005 wrote: »

Down in North Cork also, seems to be country wide. Is there anybody we can contact at this time about it?

Not that I can find. Their lines close at 4 on Saturday.

Ardent · 24-10-2020 10:16pm

Deteriorated badly from about the middle of the first half of the Liverpool match for me and now - bang - gone.

First Saturday evening of the lockdown. Liverpool match on, Khabib fight on. Their crap network couldn't cope.

Edit: Having said the above, the Vodafone network was in tatters tonight also.

verizon · 24-10-2020 10:23pm

Well this is a grim night. Hopefully wake up tomorrow back in the 21st century

Wing126 · 24-10-2020 10:24pm

Ardent wrote: »

Deteriorated badly from about the middle of the first half of the Liverpool match for me and now - bang - gone.

First Saturday evening of the lockdown. Liverpool match on, Khabib fight on. Their crap network couldn't cope.

Edit: Having said the above, the Vodafone network was in tatters tonight also.

Yeah same timeline for me too.

Also facing issues with Vodafone personally.

glasspicklejar · 24-10-2020 10:36pm

Down in Carlow

god's toy · 24-10-2020 10:49pm

back for me near Wicklow town

mossie · 24-10-2020 10:51pm

god's toy wrote: »

back for me near Wicklow town

Back here now too

MarkoF · 24-10-2020 10:51pm

Just back in cobh too.

glasspicklejar · 24-10-2020 10:52pm

Back in Carlow

morgana · 24-10-2020 11:06pm

Bweeng North Cork is back too

Wing126 · 24-10-2020 11:08pm

Back in Meath too.

RobertKK · 24-10-2020 11:22pm

Whoever turned back on the switch, thank you.

G1032 · 25-10-2020 7:57am

Still down near Castlebar

rayfitzharris · 25-10-2020 10:22am

Athy mast was down yesterday evening up to about midnight. All back working this morning.
Switched to 3s 4g last night which was also maxed out, 0.2mb down 0.0up
Yeah 5g will save us all from 4g like 4g saved us from 3g and 3g saved us from 2g...

Fiber go brrrrrr!

mossie · 25-10-2020 11:23am

Is anyone getting much lower speeds since it returned? I usually average around 90Mbps down and 8 up but now I'm getting 20 down and 2 up.

Ultimanemo · 25-10-2020 12:14pm

mossie wrote: »

Is anyone getting much lower speeds since it returned? I usually average around 90Mbps down and 8 up but now I'm getting 20 down and 2 up.

It was slow, now back to normal in Galway

G1032 · 25-10-2020 12:49pm

Just got a text saying issue resolved.. Apparently we were without service for a short period last night but thankfully the engineers have restored it.

Only they haven't and we're still down.

I don't see us getting internet back into Tuesday if they're under the impression it's fixed.

mossie · 25-10-2020 1:13pm

Ultimanemo wrote: »

It was slow, now back to normal in Galway

Mine briefly improved but I'm now getting less than 10Mbps down.

jelem · 25-10-2020 1:16pm

reading all these posts and living in south county dublin estate where eir have refused to supply fibre\cable
along with just one company supply cable\fibre "monoply", even nbp ireland\cccp etc. no response to situation.
it seems rural is being over supported whilst we suffer on old phone line.
this as i have stated clearly is government supporting and involved in Cartel and monopolies.
Well done in gaining in rural what i cannot get in D18.
(even got notice lately from Siro that they will not supply hence "virgin" monopoly goes on).

mossie · 25-10-2020 1:32pm

jelem wrote: »

reading all these posts and living in south county dublin estate where eir have refused to supply fibre\cable
along with just one company supply cable\fibre "monoply", even nbp ireland\cccp etc. no response to situation.
it seems rural is being over supported whilst we suffer on old phone line.
this as i have stated clearly is government supporting and involved in Cartel and monopolies.
Well done in gaining in rural what i cannot get in D18.
(even got notice lately from Siro that they will not supply hence "virgin" monopoly goes on).

How exactly is rural being "over supported"? I have one option - Imagine - and don't expect to see NBP for 3 or 4 years. Not exactly a glut of options.

G1032 · 25-10-2020 1:50pm

mossie wrote: »

How exactly is rural being "over supported"? I have one option - Imagine - and don't expect to see NBP for 3 or 4 years. Not exactly a glut of options.

Hear hear
Stuck with Imagine here also and their appalling service.
Internet up again now. Let's see how it goes

whelan2 · 25-10-2020 2:04pm

I am after getting 4 of those text messages this morning

jelem · 25-10-2020 2:44pm

mossie wrote: »

How exactly is rural being "over supported"? I have one option - Imagine - and don't expect to see NBP for 3 or 4 years. Not exactly a glut of options.

phone line or cable\fibre (imagine) ?.
political chest beating is going on with "rural" by government

deadl0ck · 25-10-2020 2:49pm

So this is interesting - I was chatting to an old school friend of mine yesterday.
He mentioned how bad his broadband is and asking about mine.
I said I'm on imagine and I get pretty good speeds and I'm happy with it - he's in the local town on a vodafone fibre connection and is getting 2.5 download speeds and is sick of complaining to them about it.
Here's my test just now - this is pretty typical for me since I was moved to a new mast a couple of months ago

jelem · 25-10-2020 2:52pm

G1032 wrote: »

Hear hear
Stuck with Imagine here also and their appalling service.
Internet up again now. Let's see how it goes

monopolies and cartel supported by government.
when you read other posts of how others try repeater "towers\aerials etc.methods to
gain some bandwidth, you see the restrictions placed by government and
the cost of "suported\allowed equipment" which is proferred by comreg.
IT is "closed shop" and get what you are given with profit to the vested interests.
***saw a program from north america\canada where a local set up a community tower
with government aid to supply the local town\village - cannot even follow any path
here to aid citizens own initiative.***

mossie · 25-10-2020 3:05pm

jelem wrote: »

phone line or cable\fibre (imagine) ?.
political chest beating is going on with "rural" by government

I don't have cable / fibre and no prospect of this for years. Phone line gives 2 Mbps if I'm lucky. Being rural gives me no advantage. Didn't you mention you have Virgin as an option? we'll never see that

jelem · 25-10-2020 4:52pm

in your case my comments do not refer to.
the nbp which is part funded with eu money
(i raised issue with OLAF) and MEP luke Ming Flanagan 2018 EU
posted questions for EU response)-
is a sham and as i pointed out to greens with their support
for government - the plan for miles of cable "environmental etc. footprint"
is bad when a single tower with range in miles 18 radius can provide 5G.
But the greens prove they just want government pay and to hell with "green".
Vested interests supported by FG and FF both whom need "culling",
ensure you get what they decide and NOT what is possible in a short space
of time at reasonable cost.

alec76 · 25-10-2020 5:31pm

jelem wrote: »

is bad when a single tower with range in miles 18 radius can provide 5G.

It could indeed, speeds would be slower than LTE though, but who cares?
Another lobbyist for Wireless broadband as a national solution.
2G were supposed to replace cables , then 3G , then 4g , 5g now.
Day when i've got FTTH installed was the one of the happiest day in my life , Imagine - is the scam for desperate people , without a proper choice of fibre solutions.

rodge123 · 25-10-2020 9:00pm

jelem wrote: »

in your case my comments do not refer to.
the nbp which is part funded with eu money
(i raised issue with OLAF) and MEP luke Ming Flanagan 2018 EU
posted questions for EU response)-
is a sham and as i pointed out to greens with their support
for government - the plan for miles of cable "environmental etc. footprint"
is bad when a single tower with range in miles 18 radius can provide 5G.
But the greens prove they just want government pay and to hell with "green".
Vested interests supported by FG and FF both whom need "culling",
ensure you get what they decide and NOT what is possible in a short space
of time at reasonable cost.

If your emails to Luke were as coherent as your last few posts then I’d imagine he didn’t pay much attention to them!

Ultimanemo · 26-10-2020 6:40am

jelem wrote: »

reading all these posts and living in south county dublin estate where eir have refused to supply fibre\cable
along with just one company supply cable\fibre "monoply", even nbp ireland\cccp etc. no response to situation.
it seems rural is being over supported whilst we suffer on old phone line.
this as i have stated clearly is government supporting and involved in Cartel and monopolies.
Well done in gaining in rural what i cannot get in D18.
(even got notice lately from Siro that they will not supply hence "virgin" monopoly goes on).

How fast is your Internet?

verizon · 26-10-2020 11:14pm

Anyone having problems tonight in kilkenny?

Edit: it was fine this morning again

1jcdub · 27-10-2020 10:42pm

A friend of mine had imagine installed today in Termonfeckin. The installer say he was getting 50 mb download speed. He checked it after her left and he was only getting 20 mb at 2pm. I'm due for for installation on Thursday. I'm having having second thoughts...

Grab All Association · 28-10-2020 1:24am

deadl0ck wrote: »

So this is interesting - I was chatting to an old school friend of mine yesterday.
He mentioned how bad his broadband is and asking about mine.
I said I'm on imagine and I get pretty good speeds and I'm happy with it - he's in the local town on a vodafone fibre connection and is getting 2.5 download speeds and is sick of complaining to them about it.
Here's my test just now - this is pretty typical for me since I was moved to a new mast a couple of months ago

That’s because he’s on Fibre to the cabinet which gets slower the further of distance via to the cabinet. It’s only fibre to the green cabinet. Copper wiring to his house could stretch for miles and be of poor quality/faults in parts. He’d have faster broadband if he could downgrade to an older Adsl2+ product. Not all exchanges got adsl2+, a lot are still ADSL(1)

SkepticQuark · 28-10-2020 1:29am

Down again for me. Getting pretty ****ing sick of this service the last 2 weeks or so. I can pull 90mbps on GoMo for 9.99 a month, but can't even get service half the ****ing time anymore during peak hours on imagine.

god's toy · 28-10-2020 8:45am

Does anyone have a phone connected/working? Mine never came back up (internet is fine) after the other day.

deadl0ck · 28-10-2020 9:32am

Grab All Association wrote: »

That’s because he’s on Fibre to the cabinet which gets slower the further of distance via to the cabinet. It’s only fibre to the green cabinet. Copper wiring to his house could stretch for miles and be of poor quality/faults in parts. He’d have faster broadband if he could downgrade to an older Adsl2+ product. Not all exchanges got adsl2+, a lot are still ADSL(1)

Ah interesting - I didn't realise that as I've never had any mention of the word fibre near where I am so I never really looked into it.
Thanks for that - makes sense!

mossie · 28-10-2020 9:33am

god's toy wrote: »

Does anyone have a phone connected/working? Mine never came back up (internet is fine) after the other day.

Yes, working fine. Maybe reboot the router and see if that helps.

adm · 28-10-2020 10:14am

1jcdub wrote: »

A friend of mine had imagine installed today in Termonfeckin. The installer say he was getting 50 mb download speed. He checked it after her left and he was only getting 20 mb at 2pm. I'm due for for installation on Thursday. I'm having having second thoughts...

Be sure to check with an ethernet cable plugged directly from a laptop to the router to get the true speed.

Just to rule out wifi being an issue.

1jcdub · 28-10-2020 11:00am

adm wrote: »

Be sure to check with an ethernet cable plugged directly from a laptop to the router to get the true speed.

Just to rule out wifi being an issue.

I'll get him to check again using his laptop. Thanks

Flyer1 · 28-10-2020 11:37am

Currently in contract with imagine for another 11 months - has anyone any experience with leaving imagine while in contract ? The service is just beyond crap ! Constant loss of service, speeds consistently below 3MB and often as low as 0.5MB, loss of phone service. I'm simply not getting the product I am paying for, I have spoken with technical support 6 times - all to no avail. I have just accepted it's a sh!te product and there are alternatives out there.

jelem · 28-10-2020 3:49pm

rodge123 wrote: »

If your emails to Luke were as coherent as your last few posts then I’d imagine he didn’t pay much attention to them!

pointed out luke not state i contacted him.
why keep posting to one whom is already active
when the likes of myself will ensure as many
as possible at higher levels are contacted

jelem · 28-10-2020 4:01pm

Ultimanemo wrote: »

How fast is your Internet?

was 14 down and 1 up as line tested and capable of 23.3.
18 was unstable.
when search for better price since eir had advertised eirfibre
sign up on-line and get connected when in area. after many years
fail\refuse to supply a cable\fibre connection so it was media company
"virgin" or phone line. Monopoly for virgin and corruption allowing eir
to use virgin network to sell eir service, this because if not connected\contract
with virgin already you cannot get eir cable\fibre speeds.
siro have also stated they will not provide a service.
whilst seeking a cheaper provider from resellers ALL yes ALL the
web advertisements stated my line speed was 12Mb of which one
in particular i produced screenshots of data speed test passing on route through their
servers at 14Mb.
a complaint to comrreg of False speed test results being pushed on the public.
received gobblydeegook and obsfucation with a month or so after eir reduced
my bandwidth to 11down and 1 up (if im lucky).
i have the evidence and proof of cartel and monopoly along with lies to
public and government \ministers \depts. \bodies are all in cahoots.
theft from citizens IS the game whilst supporting poor service.

Hallowed · 28-10-2020 4:08pm

jelem wrote: »

was 14 down and 1 up as line tested and capable of 23.3.
18 was unstable.
when search for better price since eir had advertised eirfibre
sign up on-line and get connected when in area. after many years
fail\refuse to supply a cable\fibre connection so it was media company
"virgin" or phone line. Monopoly for virgin and corruption allowing eir
to use virgin network to sell eir service, this because if not connected\contract
with virgin already you cannot get eir cable\fibre speeds.
siro have also stated they will not provide a service.
whilst seeking a cheaper provider from resellers ALL yes ALL the
web advertisements stated my line speed was 12Mb of which one
in particular i produced screenshots of data speed test passing on route through their
servers at 14Mb.
a complaint to comrreg of False speed test results being pushed on the public.
received gobblydeegook and obsfucation with a month or so after eir reduced
my bandwidth to 11down and 1 up (if im lucky).
i have the evidence and proof of cartel and monopoly along with lies to
public and government \ministers \depts. \bodies are all in cahoots.
theft from citizens IS the game whilst supporting poor service.

Apt

jelem · 28-10-2020 4:25pm

Hallowed wrote: »

Apt

seemingly accepted by weak sheep

rodge123 · 28-10-2020 6:36pm

jelem wrote: »

pointed out luke not state i contacted him.
why keep posting to one whom is already active
when the likes of myself will ensure as many
as possible at higher levels are contacted

You may want to remove that tin foil hat.
I think it’s interfering with your ability to write any readable posts!

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