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
Am with Pure €35/m and rang up as contract is over. They offered €40 a month, I declined. Then tried to get that €30 for life deal with GoMo but its not in my area. Went to Bonkers and all the deals were pretty crap but on Switcher they had Virgin Media 500mb €35 a month but with €105 credit towards bills at the end of July. Offer only lasts till 13th May so its finished next Wednesday. Works out at €26.25 a month over the 12 month contract so I bit their arm off for that.
Another years switching from one provider to another over. Though I must say Im jealous of those who can get the €30 a month for life GoMo deal, its a great price and avoids the annual jig around of changing providers.
It's the eir F3500 that GoMo supply, albeit without the eir logo on the front! It's a Wifi6 modem.
I would assume they also use the eir F3000 as both are compatible with the eir WiFi boosters as given with 500Mb/1Gb speeds on eir proper, but only the F3500 is confirmed so far.
Yes you'd end up up with three separate connections and ONTs.
5Gb is still very new with SIRO, the ComReg website just hasn't been updated since. Sky is currently the only provider offering 5Gb through SIRO at the moment afaik.
Virgin still does offer service through SIRO and NBI but only if they don't have their own fibre/coax service available to your address afaik.
Thanks, when our house was renovated/wrapped the copper was cut and is literally hanging off the gutter and not going into the house. Maybe they just follow the existing fibre into the house.
thanks. So if I switch multiple times I end up with 3 cables and external/internal ONTs. Comreg site says 2Gb Siro , but sky shows the 5Gb you mentioned. None of the other Siro providers list 5GB yet (not that I need it). yeah I get that VM is different. I read somewhere that VM also offered SIRO, but maybe that has ended now that they have own fibre.
OpenEir in the main follow the route of the original copper phone line. Depending on who you get they allow a bit of leeway.
Yes it's likely to follow another route into your house and won't come up into the ESB meter box like SIRO. You can always ask the engineer on the day where you'd like it installed within reason, but I suppose it depends on the engineer you get on the day.
They shouldn't touch your existing SIRO connection or ONT and service will still continue through SIRO, unless you specifically get the new provider using Virgin/open eir to cancel it for you under the new IAS switching process or cancel it yourself.
SIRO now supports 5Gb also, Sky currently offers 5Gb through SIRO.
Just to note, Virgin through Virgin FTTP doesn't come with an external ONT and there's no modem mode on their Hub 5x, if you plan on using your own router. You would have to replace the Hub 5x with a WAS-110/X-ONU-SFPP.
maybe a dumb question, when switching say from eir (using openeir fibre infrastructure) to VM using their own fibre , you’ll need engineer to come out to connect you. What are the chances they will insist on drilling to different location to the current gear? I get 5GB via Eir and VM and 2 GB via SIRO. I have active Siro connection via digiweb atm, but I’m reluctant to switch from Siro because of the fibre routing. (There was much debate during original install as I don’t have external ESB meter box… )
Maybe a none issue..
I posted here as it may not be as simple as switching gas or electricity where we only have one infrastructure provider.
Pity.
Only yesterday I signed up to Eir for 24mths @ €39.99 with a €4 increase in April 27. That's for 1Gb.
I think I'll be switching to Gomo. The 500Mb is more than enough for me. Am already a Gomo customer too.
Unfortunately I'm not, it's €150 breakage fee plus €80 for the router, the €80 is refunded when they receive the router.
open eir has probably also become available to you, you can check here -
https://www.comreg.ie/broadbandchecker
Are you within the cooling off period?
You could probably just upgrade if that happens.
I'm going to waiting for the offer once 10000 is reached. If it's anything like the mobile €9.99 plan I dont want to be stuck on the initial offering of 500MB when €5 to €10 more might get me 1GB for life.
Gomo showing as available at my eircode and I’m NBI.
Has anyone signed up yet?
There is a complaints phone number, required by ComReg for all providers
GoMo Complaints - 1800 223 212
Remember also its Gomo i.e. a no-frills service. If you lose your connection and want to speak to a person on the phone, nogo! Webchat or email only.
I would assume also it will be a standard router like the Sagemcom F3896LG (or a similar variation) of the eir White Box router.
Thank you.
They're just covering themselves. eir proper do the same thing. You'll get 500Mb download most of the time, especially over a wired connection.
Yes I'd presume it's just to cover themselves as GPON/XGS-PON is shared. All providers would have similar wording.
eir themselves state -
Maximum - 92.5% / Normally Available - 55% - 65% / Minimum - 10%
And I nearly always had the full advertised speed with eir.
It looks on the face of it a great offer. €29 is about as cheap as any and you don't need to worry about April €4 bumps. But you do pay €49 upfront. So first year is more like €34. Plus this in the T&C is worrying. I wonder if this is just to cover and they all have it. Or are you expecting about half the speed you pay for? Maximum Speed – 462 Mbps Normally Available Speed – 275 Mbps Minimum Speed – 50 Mbps
Yes only open eir, not NBI/SIRO/Virgin FTTP
Are they using the Eir Network?
For fcuks sake I've renewed with Pure, I'm already with them for mobile and being on OpenEir I qualify 😡😡, bloody typical...
Yeah it's only available to open eir, not NBI/SIRO/Virgin FTTP.
The story of my life, great deal fit for own thread in bargain alerts
Fantastic offer. Deserves it's own thread.
GoMo are launching Fibre Broadband FTTH 500Mb €29.99 per month for life, no more sneaky price rises every year.
Open for the first 10,000 gomo mobile customers. Should be widely available, there is an eircode checker on their website.
https://shop.gomo.ie/broadband
GoMo have just launched a fibre broadband offering. 500Mb/s at €29.99pm for life on a 30 day rolling contract for the first 10,000 customers. You have to be a current or new GoMo mobile customer.
Only available to open eir, not available to NBI/SIRO/Virgin FTTP etc.
One time activation fee of €49.99. If you leave GoMo mobile at any point in the future, the price increases by €10pm.
https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/broadband-market-faces-shakeup-as-gomo-launches-cheap-pay-as-you-go-fibre-offering/a286758881.html
Its such a mess, cant be this is it for a year say, no its this for a few months, then its that, oh by the way theres a hidden fee Yeah I heard that, but IF nothing goes wrong, paying 60 euro say for better customer care you will not use
