Imagine LTE Rural Broadband

Up and down all evening here, down for 5 mins at a time. Happened about 6 7 times now (went down while I was typing this). Comes back up by itself but its 20-40Mbit instead of the usual 100+.

Luckily (or more likely unluckily for me) most of the area is on the Eir rural FTTH. It ended less than 1km down the road so there's a lot less people likely to be on this mast. It seems to be back up to full speed now, it stayed connected past 10pm or so last night. They must've been doing some stuff to the network.

I've been with them almost 3 years and it's only in the last couple of months there has been a noticeable drop in speeds. My evening time speeds are now down to around 20 -30 mbps compared to 80+ mbps only a few weeks ago. There are also noticeable drop outs at times which only happened once before and that necessitated moving the receiver. Starlink are too expensive for me so will just have to wait for NBI sometime in the next 24 months.

Cutting out all day again...

Anyone having issues this evening. Mine is completely down for the last hour

The sales team have been in contact again with me, hard sell will be on again now.

This thread has always made me reluctant to sign up!

Every time my mast is down this happens, antenna hasn't moved. It was off center for the first year I had it, installed pointing at the wrong mast. Went from 1 bar to 4 -_-

Mine cut out for 5 mins last night, and cut out for most of the day last Friday again. Same thing where only the power and sys lights were on. Not sure if their mast backhaul is having issues or what - happening to my neighbor as well.

I had considered this but it's been pointing the same way for the last 12 months with no issue. I was on to them now and they said my router hasn't connected to Imagine for 87 days which is strange as it's been working all that time. I did get it put into bridge mode around then but he said that shouldn't be the issue. Anyway I've got to call them back later when I get home to reset the router so we'll see what happens then.

Down again this morning. Fairly frustrating to be honest.

Edit: sill down as if now (7pm), going to have to take time off work again tomorrow and hope I get it sorted this time.

Finally got back online yesterday. Apparently a combination of a fault on the high site and a failed firmware upgrade on my router caused the issue.

Yeah, this is pretty much my position at the moment, good speeds off peak poor speeds at peak times just about good enough for Netflix etc. Fine for 2 years and gradual decrease over last 6 months. Starlink too expensive to justify for me though.

Also in North Cork. Haven't been at home during the day but evening speeds are very poor for me at them moment.

I'm still waiting for replies to 3 emails sent over the last several weeks. You'd be better off phoning them.

Has anyone had an issue with connecting with apple devices, the connection keeps dropping but the Samsung, amazon devices are connecting ok to the imagine broadband.

You're lucky! Mine gets to 100+ after midnight but rarely hits 20 in the evenings. Been sliding for the last 8 weeks or so and had the router reset in that time.

I've been having a lot of dropped connections but not sure what lights are on.

Is there any particular feature in that Netgear you need to use? If not, why not use Netgear as access point? Disable DHCP in it, plug an ethernet cable LAN to LAN and enjoy. :)

Nope, doubt that replacing Imagine's router would work. Log on to Netgear, disable DHCP, set its LAN address to be in the same pool as Imagine's device, save and exit. Then connect each other with ethernet cable plugged into LAN ports.

I wonder how many things you want to connect you afraid it wouldn't handle? I currently have approx 60 various devices up and running without a hiccup. :-)

Ive been with Imagine for 7 years now, Cappagh mast. Service has always been hit & miss but generally useable... over the last few months it has become woeful - no connection for hours, any upload crashing the connection, etc..

Ive been onto Imagine a few times but today took the biscuit - they messed around with settings, move me to a different cell and the download became ~40mb but upload still 0.7m. yerman says to me that 0.7mb is the "best youll be getting", depite the fact that ive been 7 years on the same mast getting ~3mb ul. "everyone on the mast will be getting 0.7mb" he says.

So, Cappagh is totally over-subscribed and ul is contented to unuseable levels.

Just wanted to note that here in case anyone is thinking of using Imagine on that site.

Off to Starlink I go.

Internet down last night 8pm to 10pm, patchy again this evening. Gone from averaging 90Mbps a few months ago to probably averaging 10Mbps now, if I can get a connection. NBI 2 years away so no choice but to stick at the moment but would advise anyone who can to look elsewhere

My speeds are down 60% since April / May and Imagine thinks that's fine. Netflix is unwatchable 6-11 every evening their solution is to reduce the streaming quality nothing to do with their crap speeds.