So thought I’d throw this up, in a similar style to the electricity and gas switching deals available
one big switch have a deal for eir Broadband €35 a month and €100 credit added to your account for new residential account holders, if you’ve had eir before use spouses name which I’ve done in the past
I phoned Pure this afternoon , I got an offer of €31.50 for first 6 months and €35 for the next 6 months, No increases like others. I was with Sky and it was increasing by €3.50 in April
I was with Vodafone to about 3 years when I was on FTTC with them. They are pretty rock solid. I think I had like 2 small issues, 15 min phone call sorted it out no bother.
I signed up as well via switcher to get the 1Gb as Virgin now have full fibre to my area.
There's been a few posts on here of Vodafone congestion issues at certain times, I don't know how widespread that actually is. There has also been posts that they renew IP addresses every night causing a few minutes of downtime.
Sky would be the same price, €35pm for 1Gb on a 12 month contract, no €50 One4All however. Eir is €40pm with a €100 bill credit but it's a 24 month contract with a €4 price increase next April.
Showing that price for me too, it's a great deal in fairness. I'm out of contract next Saturday it's looking like it's the plan to go for at this stage. Are there any reliability issues with them?
Eir
Interesting, it shows for me as €35pm for 6 months, €40pm for 6 months. But it stays at €40pm out of contract, not €50pm. That's SIRO for me, are you on open eir, NBI or Virgin FTTP?
No it's €35 for full length of term.
Afaik it's €35pm for 6 months then €40pm thereafter on a 12 month contract.
No price increase till 2027 so happy days 😊
Correct, if you sign up in March or April the CPI increase will not be part of your 12 month contract.
I'm going to ask once they ring me even if go up it's €38.5 plus I'll get €50 one4all gift card which is not too bad. My contract should start in April so maybe price increases won't apply.
The terms for Voda seem to say that the price will go up by 3.50 in April - did you take that into account or do you feel that isn't going to apply to you?
Got €35 for 1Gb vodafone via switcher. Contract for 12 months.
I am seeing BT Ireland now.
I spoke to Pure now. It seems I paid Sky until Monday, 23rd March so transfer will happen on Monday.
A restart of the router won't do it unfortunately, you'll need to get in contact with Pure Telecom. The transfer didn't happen yet for whatever reason.
Ok, thanks.
Pure Telecom told me the transition happens automatically. Maybe I need to restart the router....
I see VM have brought back the €30 activation fee for anyone signing up to the 500meg plan😡
It looks like you're not switched over yet, i'd give Pure Telecom a ring and see what's happening. It should say BT Ireland or eir as your ISP with Pure Telecom.
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:
unless your gaming do yourselves a favour and get a 100 euro 5G router unlocked off cex and a 12.99 48 SIM card. I’m getting 450 download and 30 upload. It’s perfect for work and streaming etc, if you had kids and gaming might be better off sticking to wired as 5G wouldn’t be the best for gaming due to latency.
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.
Watching your thread with interest as I'm 5.5 months into a new contract with Eir and have this exact issue. Eir insisting I'm "in contract" but until fibre is installed wont charge me the lower rate.
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.
I’ve sky via Siro and contract is up start of April. So how do I know if I go virgin media that it’ll use Siro or not.
To be honest if Sky kept me on same rate I’m fine with that as work pay up to a certain rate. Is it better to ring, WhatsApp or chat to get best rate?
just checked and mine is a LG8245B7N.
Try submitting a complaint to eir, their complaints team are quite good in my experience. You can get in contact with ComReg 10 days after you've submitted the complaint to eir, you should get a complaint reference number for ComReg.
https://eir.ie/helpandsupport/online-forms/online-complaint/
https://www.eir.ie/complaints/
https://www.comreg.ie/advice-information/consumer-care/
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?!
Same here, main deco straight onto the ONT courtesy of advice in this thread, huawei still in its box. NBI for reference
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 :)
