Imagine LTE Rural Broadband

27-12-2021 10:46PM

No post in nearly 3 weeks ?

Not working or barely working for me tonight anyway

Gonzo · 28-12-2021 11:34AM

Perhaps a lot of Imagine customers have moved onto FTTH or Starlink. This thread is noticeably quieter since Starlink went live.

mossie · 28-12-2021 11:38AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118381258#Comment_118381258

Probably a lot to do with the boards.ie update too. Most forums / threads have lost a lot of users since that.

28-12-2021 11:45AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118381258#Comment_118381258

Starlink tempts me

Must read the relevant thread

Service back this morning

mossie · 07-01-2022 11:51PM

Anyone having issues with Imagine tonight? Constantly dropping connection for me when watching Netflix.

sok2005 · 09-01-2022 06:17AM

Anyone in Cork area having an issue with their broadband? Mines been off all morning, looks like it's not connecting to the mast.

xxyyzz · 08-02-2022 10:15PM

I've been waiting a long time to post this, digiweb are connecting me next week. How do I go about cancelling imagine?

Quin_Dub · 09-02-2022 09:19AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118603207#Comment_118603207

Just call them and cancel - Assuming you are out of contract you need to give them 30 days notice (one billing cycle) so you'll have one more bill potentially.

Not sure if they come to retrieve the kit, but expect that they probably do at some stage..

The Cush · 13-02-2022 10:59PM

In today's Sunday Indo, Sean Bolger, Imagine CEO, is stepping down. He remains as a shareholder and non-exec director.

According to the article, Bolger, 57, is stepping down for personal reasons.

Interim CEO will be Steven Cast, from Brookfield, Imagine's majority shareholder.

19-02-2022 10:03PM

Imagine is down for me tonight

Common problem on a Saturday night....

christianhughes · 22-02-2022 01:02PM

Has anyone had any luck bridging a second wireless modem (TP Link Archer VR400 in my case) to their Imagine Router (Gemtek wvrtm-130acn)?

I've used my TP Link router with both the standard Vodafone router and the standard Eir router without too much issue. So, when Imagine sales guy (I know?!?) and the installation guys both said that customers have no issue bridging a second modem I assumed all would be ok.

Setup TP Link router as I've done in the past (Bridge mode, turn off DHCP, set IP to one not being used by the Gemtek). Set Gemtek to start assigning IP from 15.10 and used 15.2 for the TP Link IP.

Whether the Gemtek is in Bridge Mode (which you annoyingly have to phone up and ask for) or not, no internet gets to the TP Link (Cat5 is used to connect them).

Feel like I'm missing something simple but as you're so restricted in what you can do with the Gemtek, I just don't know.

Any help or experience anyone has would be brilliant. Thanks in advance.

joujoujou · 22-02-2022 01:16PM

Any of your routers/access points should be easily able to become a DHCP server, no need for bridge mode at all. Try to disable DHCP in gemtek, enable in tplink, make sure static IPs are outside of the DHCP range (I'm pretty sure you know it already) and try that way.

Edit: 192.168.15.2 is a static IP of the aerial unit. So before you try what I wrote above, just change tplink's IP to, for example, 192.168.15.9

christianhughes · 22-02-2022 01:49PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118672864#Comment_118672864

Ah I had no idea 15.2 was the roof unit. That may be the issue right there.

The TP unit has to be in bridge mode as far as I am aware or it requires ISP information to be entered, which I obviously won't be doing.

I'll try having the TP do the DHCP work and turn it off on the Imagine unit and see if it helps.

listermint · 23-02-2022 04:04PM

There can't be anything more snarky than imagines data usage warnings. Your no where near reaching your monthly link but they send out these abysmal snarky warnings with threats to cut off. And their average user only uses 5mb over a month.

Piss off!

23-02-2022 06:22PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118679216#Comment_118679216

They've gotten worse over time on this front. Any single day of high usage and they're straight onto threatening to cut you off. Long for the day NBI saves us from this company.

christianhughes · 24-02-2022 03:52PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118672864#Comment_118672864

Alas, no joy with any attempts to connect the devices.

Just kinda given up now and back to having a dead spot in the house. Annoying.

joujoujou · 24-02-2022 10:59PM

^^ Strange one. It MUST work if set up properly. Try this:

https://community.tp-link.com/en/home/forum/topic/156305

deadl0ck · 25-02-2022 04:51PM

Are imagine still throttling after 20GB usage per day ? I can't see anything about it on the terms and conditions now

rodge123 · 02-03-2022 08:16AM

Anyone having issues in Cappagh north Kildare mast last night and this morning?

sevive is basically unusable and just love that no support lines open till 9am and I’m trying to get online to work from home!

rodge123 · 02-03-2022 09:01AM

Figured out myself, looks like uploading a large file causing while network crawl…very frustrating.

mossie · 02-03-2022 09:20AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118718057#Comment_118718057

Yeah, that's caused issues for me in the past. Uploading seems to cause the whole system to over load.

oscarBravo · 02-03-2022 09:54AM

On any connection, filling the upload pipe to capacity will hurt downloads. If you need to keep your connection usable while uploading, you'll need to find a way to restrict the upload speed to less than your connection's upload capacity.

christianhughes · 02-03-2022 06:22PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118688604#Comment_118688604

Yeah, those are literally the exact steps I followed but no internet reaches the AP. I just assumed it was Imagine's router preventing it somehow. I've had no issue doing this with Eir or Vodafone.

joujoujou · 02-03-2022 10:50PM

One more thing came to my mind - are you sure ethernet cable you use is not faulty?

NakQuada · 17-03-2022 12:36PM

Anyone have any issues with connection after getting them to enable bridge mode?

I had the old equipment which was clapping out for hours on end and they came and replaced it with all new antenna/router and I then asked them to enable bridge mode. Everything goes into my pfSense firewall and looked fine.

But once I started gaming I could see my pings were in the 70/80ms range and I was getting 15-20% packet loss playing PUBG or Rocket League, etc.

Also, with bridge mode I should be able to set pfSense WAN to DHCP but sometimes this does not work and requires rebooting their equipment several times until it does.

Anyone have similar issues?

Dero · 17-03-2022 10:41PM

I have the same setup; bridged Imagine CPE -> pfSense, and I haven't experienced either of those issues. I have a static IP, but I still set the WAN to DHCP and it just works. My latency/packet loss has been quite stable for a long time now. It did have serious issues previously during peak hours, but that wouldn't be related to the bridge mode and/or gaming.

NakQuada · 23-03-2022 02:37PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118799901#Comment_118799901

Dero, what's your pfSense setup like? Is it running on a dedicated box or do you have it running in a VM? Got no good of it with Imagine in the end, and they pulled bridge mode and she appears to be back somewhat stable, but I'm back in double NAT land.

I've noticed today that I'm now getting consistent speeds of 170mbps+ which is mad because I never got speeds like that before.

Dero · 24-03-2022 11:38AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118824174#Comment_118824174

It's a fairly vanilla pfSense setup with pfBlockerNG. I do have dual WAN for my 3 mobile backup connection and game consoles though, but most stuff goes via Imagine. It is running on an old HP Microserver that I had here. It's probably not the most efficient, but it works. I had it virtualised before, and had no issues other than losing Internet when I took down the VM host.

dunleas · 31-03-2022 01:16PM

Has anyone noticed that their usage is showing zero for the last 7 days?

MarkoF · 08-04-2022 01:59PM

I have no signal here in Cobh as of 2 pm. Am connected to the Carrigaline mast. Any body else seeing this

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