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Hi

A question for our experts !

Living in D15 and was recently upgraded by Virgin Media to fibre broadband to the outside of the house.

Still have a cable connection to my VMbroadband router. Does that mean service is poorer than on fibre for house to router.

Paying €70 per month to VM.

Recently got a text from Sky offering fibre broadband for half the price of VM.

Does anyone know if Sky will carry out the final part of the fibre connection to their router or do I need to request Virgin to do the final connection first.

Anything I should consider regarding Sky broadband as want to keep my phone line.

Might use Sky in order to get a reduction from VM.

Any help or advice would be much appreciated.

Interesting. Current deal with VM ends early November. Might be able to use Sky to get a decent price from Virgin.

Thanks

I don't have any issues with Pure blocking VPNs or anything -= I did have an issue with their CS at the start when my line got damaged - it took making a format complaint before anyone would actually do anything about it.

I've also had Sky before that and never had any issues with Netflix or WHatsApp - maybe that's related the their recent issues around weird routing/ UK IP address assignment.

I've used my own hardware too

Does anybody here know how to get Virgin Media to respond to 'no service' (Broadband and TV)for nearly 3 weeks now.

I have told them what the issue is (a broken cable between my house and a neighbour) but nobody is doing anything to fix the issue. All I get from the Virgin support desk is 'we'll send someone out and text you beforehand'

So far 1 text and no technician showed up.

Status now is a technician is 'scheduled ' to attend but no txt confirming so I dont believe it

3 WEEKS with nothing happening is WAY WAY too long.

Has anyone got any ideas as to how to get Virgin to fix the problem

On Virgin Media at the moment, but it's crept up to €93 a month (TV+broadband package).

So simply looking at what's listed on switcher.ie I'm tempted to get Vodafone's "1 Gigabit Full Fibre SIRO Broadband" which is just €40 after 6 months. All we really want is broadband (don't want TV or fixed line phone).

Any reason why I should not go for that Vodafone offer? Is there anything better?

That really depends on where they need to run the cable from.

Does anyone know if the connectors on telephone poles and ESB poles are optical fibre connectors for broadband?

No open eir handle the installation regardless of ISP and open eir contract out to KN Circet usually for installations, so it will be the same as your neighbours.

They will bring the fibre cable in and usually terminate it inside in a NTU white box on the wall and then connect a short fibre patch cable to an ONT, another white box, that will be installed next to it.

Like this - https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualIreland/s/NjV8gUDFhm

You then connect an Ethernet cable from the ONT to the ISP router or your own router.

You can choose whichever ISP you want, they’ll all use the open eir line back to the exchange/handover where it’ll be then brought on to the ISPs core network.

anyone know what the best deal is for 1gb or 2gb at the moment ? Currently on vf 1gb. A long time since I switched but our contract so just want to see what the options are. Thanks

You need to know which FTTP access network is available to you. There’s open eir, SIRO, NBI. You can check here -

https://www.comreg.ie/broadbandchecker/

Once you know, you’ll have a choice of multiple ISPs to choose from.

open eir - eir, Digiweb, Pure Telecom, Sky, Vodafone etc.

SIRO - Vodafone, Sky, Digiweb, Pure Telecom etc.

You can just set the WiFi name (SSID) to the same one as you were using with the Digiweb router, all the devices should just connect.

Should be similar process to this for all routers -

If Digiweb let you keep the router you wouldn’t even need to switch it out if you didn’t want to.

When you leave Digiweb they will want their stuff back.