Imagine LTE Rural Broadband

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. :-)

Yep, same happens me. Very annoying.

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.

My latest bill has a lot of contact numbers starting with 1890. Not sure when 1890 numbers were done away with, but Imagine still quote them.

Not a great sign 😕

finally got NBI yesterday! Looking forward to cancelling Imagine but on balance they did fill the gap while waiting over the years...

Yep, that was it. Thanks!

Just wondering if anyone has experience with trying to port forward with an Imagine router that's connected to a second router (in this case a TP Link Deco mesh system in 'router' mode)? The service I'm trying to access is on a server connected to the second router and is accessible through its local IP and port just fine.

I've logged into the Imagine router and set the port I want to forward and using canyouseeme.org I know the port is reachable externally. I've set the local IP on the rule to the IP of the Deco router. And on the Deco router I've set up a port forwarding rule with the server and the correct port.

Am I missing something obvious here or is the only way to make this work switching the second router to access point mode so it's dumb as a brick and is essentially extending the Imagine router's network? I don't see any option on the Imagine router to switch it to bridge mode.

I've been with Imagine for over 2 years now and generally speaking I am very happy with the service in terms of speed and connectivity. Rarely any issues there. However, my big bugbear is their data cap / fair usage policy.

We are not heavy users by any means (no gamers in the house - yet) but I WFH most of the time. My typical average daily usage is around ~30GB and that has me hitting ~900+ GB for the month, which has me uncomfortably sailing close to the wind. So, at least every other month I get their snotty warning via email that my usage is way in excess of the "average user" and basically advising me to reduce usage - or else! Fortunately I don't think I've exceeded the 1TB in a single month yet but I'm uncomfortably close. If they carried out their threat and throttled me I'd be snookered, especially given my WFH situation.

I actually think their online portal where you can check your usage is buggy as hell anyway, it always seems to show 0GB for off-peak which can't be right and today it seems to be completely down. How can they expect customers to monitor their usage if their portal can't be relied upon...

Does anyone know or have any inside info on whether they plan to tweak their fair usage policy? I'd even be happy to pay a little more if it was upped to 1.5TB we'll say... If / when FTTH comes to my area I will jump ship but it really would be for this reason alone. Speed/connectivity is fine but there's no comfort in having high speed broadband with a cap on it. I can't imagine how it would work at all if you had a couple of teenagers in the house glued to their xBoxes.

I'm the same WFH. Actually it's quiet stressful checking in on it once a week. I've reduced my security camera to SD quality. Reduced the amount of games downloaded to the PS5. Use standard radio instead of streaming. All this generally brings it below 500G per Month but your always conscious of it.

Yeah I suppose the nature of my job (software development) does involve some medium-heavy use - video calls, downloading large files, etc. But even on a Saturday or Sunday the usage is rarely less than ~20GB, even if we're out for half the day! No gaming whatsoever but definitely a bit of Netflix / video streaming in the evenings and internet radio during the day.

Like I said, I'd be happy enough if the limit was relaxed even a little bit, just to give me the bit of headroom that I don't need to be checking the usage so much.