Broadband switch deals

I had both the 500 and 1gig on the co-ax system, the 500 was rock solid but as you say the 1gig was much less stable, I had to reboot the modem a few times in the year I had it, even on a cable I never touched 1gig in download speed.

It's on their website, as has been said already it must only be available to people on the co-ax system.

With it available to your neighbours, you should be able to go into an eir store with your Eircode and get them to run an "overnight test", that will update the database if FTTP is available. It can take a long time for the results to come back.

You don't have to go with Virgin through Virgin FTTP. You can get Digiweb, Vodafone and Sky through Virgin FTTP.

https://digiweb.ie/xpress-fibre-500/

No bother! Yeah it's just their FTTP, not coax. A new fibre cable will be brought in and an ONT is installed on the wall for Digiweb, Vodafone, Sky. If you go with Virgin, they'll remove the ONT and use their Hub 5x that has an integrated ONT, which makes it difficult to use your own router as there is no modem/bridge mode.

Pleasantly surprised to find pure telecom are now providing WiFi 7 routers even for the 500mb package.
I received a HUAWEI LG8245B7N.

I also got a little white Huawei one which I put into storage.What is good about it? I have Deco mesh so this Huawei is of no use to me.

They are not a great router in my experience to be honest. I moved to Pure from Eir and had terrible wifi signal from the Huawei router compared to the previous Eir router. Manged to keep the Eir router and use that now instead with no more poor wifi signal. My father also moved to Pure recently and noticed really poor wifi signal up stairs. I ended up getting him a wifi extender for his pc upstairs. He never needed one with the old Sky router.

I was delighted to post the above, However, I now see that the reception at the back of the house has deteriorated significantly. There is a big chimney stack between Sagemcom F5685LGE router and the living room TV. If I got a longer cable I could move the router, but the chimney would then cast a shadow elsewhere. I want an easy and economical solution, what am I looking for? a router, a range extender, a mesh, or something else? Any guidance would be appreciated.

I've switched to Pure from Sky and received HUAWEI LG8245B7N router.
how this router compares with the sky one? I have not installed pure router, as the switch on SIRO in on 27th of March.
Sky router has really good wifi signal.
Pure router has way more configurations options, 2.5Gb LAN ports(1xWAN, 1xLAN).

And the final question, if the huawey router has good wifi signal, can the firmware on it be changed to a custom one?
I'm looking on creating a second guest wifi networks and allocate a different IP class that main network.
From the settings of HUAWEI LG8245B7N it supports a second network, but cannot be assigned for the wifi networks. I'm hopping there are custom ROMs that will allow greater configuration options :)

Switched from Virgin to Eir at start of January, having checked Eir and found our post code is now able for fibre (we have switched over and back to Eir previously but was always via the old phone line and around 80mbps....).

So, several visits from circet later, I'm told there's a problem in the cabinet and Eir must resolve it. We ring Eir and they tell us they'll send out circet... And round and round it goes (with the circet people seeming decent, and telling me they are leaving detailed notes for Eir on what Eir needs to do)... When we contact Eir I suppose we are getting a call centre person but they don't seem to have a clue and just keep dispatching the Circet people... I think we've had 4 different circet vans here now but they can't do anything.

Anyway, just wondering if anyone has any issue with Eir like this or any suggestions on how to break through?!

just checked and mine is a LG8245B7N.

If Virgin Media FTTP/coax is available to you then they most likely won't want to use SIRO, you can check here -

https://www.comreg.ie/broadbandchecker

The Sky WhatsApp is - 0818716051, ask for cancellation to get to the Loyalty team. Calling may be better though, I'm not too sure.

Do this ^ @wersal gummage

And put Eir on notice in your complaint by mentioning if you dont get satisfactory resolution in a reasonable timeframe you will be lodging a complaint with ComReg.

I just plugged in Pure Telecom Huawei router and changed WiFi details to match previous Sky details. All good so far.

On a speed test, it's still showing provider as SKY. Is it normal? Screenshot:

I see VM have brought back the €30 activation fee for anyone signing up to the 500meg plan😡