Imagine LTE Rural Broadband

Does anyone have a handy solution for scheduling downloads in Firefox / Chrome? I already have Steam etc that have built in schedules / limits configured but I need to download some stuff thru a browser between 1 and 7.

I tell ye, Imagine knew what they were doing when they set off peak to these times, absolute pain to stay up and kick stuff off when you've work in the morning!

Hi.

I made a huge error earlier when in the settings of my imagine router, I disabled DHCP and WiFi and now I cannot access the internet at all, presumably because my devices can't get an IP address. How can I get around this?

Thanks. I tried this without success, in the end I had to call Imagine and they reset from their end.

I didn't get that text but mine is down in cork and was trying to figure out what was wrong wasted about 30 minutes checking different things

Was on a web chat with imagine support about getting a free equipment upgrade scheduled and asked them about the daily download cap that has been talked about a few times in these threads (searching for search functionality on "new" look boards...). 20GB before people were experiencing throttling and the like, myself too.

Support today confirmed to me that there is no daily download cap. Its the 1TB monthly as in the fair use policy. Well, they first said it was 20GB per day until i challenged them on the fair use policy.

Will be re-enabling the auto updates on my games consoles, downloading during the day etc and see how confirmed it actually is....

I wouldn't trust them either, but it will be interesting to see in any case.

Welcome back to the 21st century! Great result......and you didnt rant too much considering that pain you have been through. Nice speeds to boot.

Also worth keeping in mind if others are still having issues with Imagine and can get a half decent mobile signal outside it may be worth revisiting 4G mobile broadband again. External antennas can also achieve amazing results.

A lot of the 4G network has seen significant upgrades over the last 18 months due to the pandemic. I used to have rubbish Eir service, but last year trialed them out after noticing my phone signal was decent outside and have been getting 90/40 consistantly all day long for €30/month.

You could potentially try all 3 main players at the same time (VF, Eir & Three) and cancel them all within 14 day cooling off if none are any good. A week is more than enough to try them out. I even trialed EIRs 5G broadband plan concurrently with my 4G service last month (as now out of contract and on a rolling 30 day plan), but didnt have a strong enough signal so cancelled it and no harm done.

Only caveat is you must sign up online in order to cancel within the 14 day cooling off period guaranteed under law. If you do it in-store, then the statutory cooling off period doesnt apply.

Exactly, for some Imagine are the only real option unfortunately. To be fair I have had few issues and generally these have been resolved quickly. NBI are estimating late 2023 or early 2024 and starlink is too expensive so it's Imagine or nothing for me

My biggest issue with then is sending those bloody high usage warnings at 700gb and shaming you saying average use is X. There's another 300gb to go and only days left to the end of the month. F O with that nonsense !

I would generally agree, but when there's a good chunk of people staring down the barrel of a 5 year wait for said fiber its gonna start playing on their minds I'd wager. I know its playing on mine and Imagine isnt near as bad for me as some people in this thread.

Anyone tacked a mesh router onto the Imagine one lately?

Is there much hassle doing it? Turning off the imagine wifi etc?

Any recommendations for a mesh system ?

Looking at TP-Link Deco M9 ??

Brilliant, thanks.

Which netgear did you go for .. the wifi 6 one of them looks pretty expensive... RBK853.. but I suppose its triband and should last well into the future...

this is interesting... whats this all about?

Yah.. its about people like me who were promised NBP connection by March 2022 and are now told it will be at least October 2022.

There was a big hoo haa about it in the Business Post.

What are they doing for their 3Billion euros? Feck all!!

I would bet that Imagine of course will not be making that price available to us mugs who are already customer.

I filled in my email to get further info and have heard nothing...

I can literally see a house across two fields away that has Eir fiber.. and the useless hoors wont come the extra 300 yards...

its an introductory offer only, €29.99 for 6 months and then back up to full whack.

Would anyone know if I could reuse the external antenna that imagine use ? It’s still up on a pole outside and I’m using a 4g modem at present with a sim . I asked at the time for imagine to organise taking away equipment but they never followed up afterwards.

I don’t know if the antenna needs power and that’s why it’s a rj45 for poe power .

it has a rj45 at end of cable ,would need a ts9 connection, had a quick google and with a few different adapters I could get to a ts9 but would I be wasting my time if the unit needs power ?

any thoughts much appreciated, cheers

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