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I'm now experiencing similar right now! It was wired also.

It seems to be just a widespread outage at the moment, now that I’ve looked around -

https://downdetector.ie/status/digiweb/

Oh that is a big update, that’s good you got sorted in the end with Blacknight. I’ve been wanting to try them also.

My broadband contract is up again. At the moment I am using Three 5g mobile broadband. In the past the only other option has been virgin media. Recently Sky & Vodafone have started offering broadband on virgins network.

I was wondering if anyone has moved to either & is there any difference between them & virgin? Is there any benefit to switching to either over Virgin?

In an area getting NBI at the moment, everyone had either Copper or no line (so Starlink, 5g etc).

Are there any differences between Fibre broadband providers in this case or should speeds be fairly uniform regardless?

Are SIRO and open eir available to be installed at your address? You can check here -

https://www.comreg.ie/broadbandchecker

If they are, then Vodafone will most likely decide which they want to use themselves, regardless if the UAN is given. Because Vodafone own part of SIRO, I presume they'll want to use that. You could request that they use open eir though, they might do it.

You should still be able to request Vodafone to cancel your current provider for you, if you do have to switch to SIRO.

If only open eir is available at your address, then that's what Vodafone will use. It's only when multiple access networks are available at an address, the provider picks between them whether you have it installed yet or not.

Yes, SIRO will come up into the electricity meter box and be brought into the house near it.

As both are available, all you can do is ask Vodafone would it be possible to use your current open eir line, they might agree. You'd have to confirm this with any provider you are switching to.

Digiweb would let you pick which access network you'd prefer to use, at different prices for each.

eir Retail doesn't use SIRO at all, so it would be open eir with them.

Virgin Media doesn't use open eir, so it would be SIRO or their own network, if that was available to you on the ComReg checker, with them.

All other big ISPs would have the option of using SIRO or open eir, so you'd have to confirm with them.

This is not always the case, if there's more than one access network available to be installed at the address, there could be a switch. You'd have to confirm with the provider.

Yes, even if you have FTTP from one access network installed at your property. The provider could pick a different access network, if it's available at your property. Another fibre cable and ONT would be installed, they won't touch your existing install.

The access networks charge different rates to the providers. The provider might want to use a cheaper one for them, if it's available at your property.

You can check which access networks are available to be installed at your property here -

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

Sky, Vodafone & eir all charge the same prices to customers regardless of the access network, but they themselves could save money by using a cheaper access network to them.

It's hard to find a provider who will let you choose the access network yourself. Digiweb do let you choose but have different pricing for each, SIRO is usually the cheapest with them.

NBI was meant to be the only option available to the people who were in their rollout, but the commercial operators (open eir, SIRO, Virgin Media) have encroached on their areas. These were meant to be areas that were not financially viable to the commercial operators when the NBP was agreed.

You will have to order broadband from a provider for the final bit of the install to your house to be done.

I wouldn't worry, the latency between all the FTTP providers is fairly similar and low. Jitter and consistentsy would be much improved over mobile broadband.

No, as you said, there won't be much difference with latency no matter what speed you pick. Picking a higher speed may allocate you more time slots on XGS-PON lowering latency, but it should only be marginal.

I thought I read here that people have cancelled their sky broadband and then signed up with sky again to stop the price from going from €35pm to €75pm.

But I cannot find it now.

My contract was coming to an end and I tried to renew at a lower price, but sky were offering nothing, so I cancelled. I went to switcher and saw a new offer from sky, got a phone call and they told me that I couldn't sign up with sky for 12 months.

Fair enough, but how are others doing it? It seems a bit silly of sky to refuse my business and switch to vodafone or virgin etc. for a year or two or indefinitely if they keep the prices down.

I'm in an NBI area which has recently gone to 'pre-order now available'. Last week I signed up to the eir 1Gb deal with €100 credit via Switcher which is €40 p/m until next April's increase. Don't have an install date yet.

Would've jumped at the new Gomo offer but unfortunately not eligible in my area, but now it's got me questioning whether or not to go ahead with the 24 months with eir.

I'm thinking now would it be better to stick to a shorter plan so I could potentially jump to a Gomo type deal if one was available in 12 months?

Are the routers supplied by Digiweb/Pure Telecom of a similar standard to eir's?

Thanks for that. I might cancel the eir order and go with the Pure offer through OBS and put the savings towards something like the Deco X50/X55 mesh.