If he is up north I remember reading a fair few years ago that Northern Ireland was the first country/area to have broadband nationally but thinking about it now since it's been a long time it may have been DSL and not fibre.
He might be in the north.. I guess.
Ireland seems to still have a very low pm rate. Other countries are getting shafted on the price. We are fortunate in that respect. Might be volume of customers perhaps
I don't understand. Are you talking about Starlink.? Also why £. We are paying €50 a month. That is residential unless for some reason you are on a business account.
€35 a month, put your Eircode in to see the price.
Edit
https://starlink.com/ie/residential?srsltid=AfmBOoqFoJJEF8zcU2pyBzwnmWMu6PKL3JKKouTC-KLR-_KHV8e5hv1Z
How much does that work out as then, monthly? I can't imagine there's many Starlink customers left in Éire with the likes of the eir rural fibre and NBI rollouts.
I just checked it . £75 Stg per month . Too dear
Didn't mention outages once at all in my post. Never said it had an outage. Although it has had 2 in my ownership no big deal starlink network issue. Wasn't a major issue for me ultimately fell back to 4G for the period.
However as I said like any service where distance and atmosphere is concerned it suffers from latency it can't handle video calls at volume and falls off if 2 people are using high quality video streams. It handles gaming but just about. I wouldn't say it's bad I wouldn't say its good but you get defaulted to certain servers based on your latency and ping.
Overall great service for what it is. Ideal! For some people (my parents) , makes a super back up option. But do I want my fibre. Good jaysus yes.
Jesus, I haven't fibre and hoping to get it next year but just assumed it would be 100% reliable due to being specially designed for internet. The storm isn't that bad as trees can take down lines but the other outage on random days doesn't sound great.
To be honest I haven't seen much of a difference from my Starlink days to the fibre connection I have now.
Starlink was well able to manage my households day to day internet needs.
If anything it was more consistent and reliable than my Sky fibre. The most recent storm knocked out my fibre for the day, I've had a few interruptions on random days lasting anything from 2 hours up to 7/8 hours without service.
The only outtage I can recall with Starlink was one evening when I think they had a major global outtage.
Obviously losing ground to ground based services. Wouldn't tempt me I'm dying to move off Jan Feb. It's a great service for what it is. It's not a great service for a properly remote working house. Multiple video calls and other IOT devices all sharing network. Just about handles it with various drops and latency issues.
Fibre all the way.
A nice new offer from Starlink in my inbox. Shame I'm in a contract with Sky.
Starlink misses you! Reactivate your service by December 1st on any plan and enjoy 50% off your monthly bill for the next 24 months. No contract or long-term commitment required.
Please note: The 50% discount applies only to your currently canceled service lines. It will last for 24 billing cycles after activation but will not apply to your activation bill.
Got fibre installed, been using it a couple years without any major issues but didn't have occasional streaming issues
I'm a new customer of Starlink two or three months now. It's a very good service so far. There is three of us in the house using it at the same time without any hiccups. The only thing that will make me cancel after the year is up is fibre as that is suppose to be installed in my area end of summer/start of autumn.
Could i ask why you cancelled?
IImma Go for the 30day trial with free kit . Theres nothing i can do but try it, for 1 month, i did a skyscan with the app and it was bad last night, but i did one this morning and it was much better it just said intteruptions for gaming. But everything else was clear.
I am sick of irish companies throttling me. Im getting 32mbit down 1mbit up vodafone, i can't upload anything to google drive or backup at that pathetic speed. Im certain they're throttling, i will try a 48 sim and see if same.
An Post, assuming they haven't changed to another. Ordered on 4th May, shipped from Germany on the 7th May and delivered here on the 13th May.
AAnyone Know who starlink.com ships with to ireland?
I was loking at harvey norman for a 349eur kit but i see on starlink website they include the kit free if you sub for a year of 50pm residential.
That Is more than 35pm but it sort of pays for itself imo.
Sell it on Adverts?
Bought it but they mentioned in my cancellation email they would share how to return it to them
Did you buy it or rent it? Most people paid for the hardware.
cancelled mine last month but never received any instructions on returning the HW, anyone know the best way to arrange it?
I get 30ms to an Irish CS2 server we use for friendly games when every other Irish lad is sub 10ms (lucky bucks all have fiber) yeah. Even the lads over in the UK we play with have lower ping than I do to it. Its apparently hosted in Dublin, not sure what cloud provider the service is using. I get lower latency to the games matchmaking servers in london.
Has anyone on Starlink observed consistently lower latency to UK servers than within Ireland?
This is something I just noticed when I tried a few speed tests to UK hosts and was surprised to see it report latency in the low 20's, whereas it rarely dips below 30ms with Irish test servers such as Enet, Eir, Three, etc. I observed the same thing when I tried pinging various Irish and UK IP addresses.
For example, when I ran a 5 minute ping test (300 pings) across 3 terminals to an Irish host (HEAnet), UK host (Leaseweb UK) and an Isle of Man host (Manx Telecom), I got the following results:
I tried a few Isle of Man hosts thinking it may be due to my connection going via the Starlink POP there, but the latency was similar.
Command line speed test - Three Ireland followed by Zen Internet UK:
Update: Going by a trace route, my connection appears to be going out via a UK POP:
Wait till you hear what volkswagen done before going fully automotive.
Licences were probably issued months ago but the Comreg information notice only published now.
As regards the Elfordstown Starlink earth station, looks like this was replaced by the 9 dish site at Garrettstown. No mention of it in the consultation docs.
Wondering if those domes are just waiting on the ground.
Interesting, I had assumed Killala was already live, the unofficial Starlink tracker site was showing it presumed live since apple maps imagery shows the domes built. Did they go ahead and build it assuming this would go through? I haven't noticed any improvements to speed or jitter in the last few months that I was hoping for with a new ground station coming online. Also same site shows that Elfordstown Starlink site as decommissioned. Was probably only used for the beta.
Both these applications now approved by ComReg.
Separately Amazon AWS are building their own subsea cable from Maryland to Cork it's called "Fastnet" (geddit)
I heard about this on a podcast.
https://au.pcmag.com/networking/113929/spacex-update-your-inactive-starlink-dishes-now-or-theyll-be-bricked
I haven't received the email from Starlink, but I'm on a new version of the software, as I switch on my dish once a month, and leave on overnight so both the dish and router update themselves.
ya, all correct, can also wire them together if cables available, get full speed then.
Just dont get the E4 which Currys sell, max 100Mbps
yes, no problem, I have them if you want
