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
There is a complaints phone number, required by ComReg for all providers
GoMo Complaints - 1800 223 212
Gomo showing as available at my eircode and I’m NBI.
Has anyone signed up yet?
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.
You could probably just upgrade if that happens.
Are you within the cooling off period?
open eir has probably also become available to you, you can check here -
https://www.comreg.ie/broadbandchecker
Unfortunately I'm not, it's €150 breakage fee plus €80 for the router, the €80 is refunded when they receive the router.
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.
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.
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.
OpenEir in the main follow the route of the original copper phone line. Depending on who you get they allow a bit of leeway.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Good stuff. The F3500 is perfect for the 500Mbs given it its spec'd to handle 1Gbs.
I'm on the 5Gbs plan (NBI) and they supplied their Wifi 7 router. Its a Sagemcom F@st 5870 which I was surprised at. Its a bit of a beast with a quadcore 64bit ARM cpu with 2GB ram.
Not using it though as using my own hardware.
I have the Wifi7 router aswell as one of the Wifi7 boosters. I can easily get 900Mb+ over wifi on my ZFold 7 on the 1Gb service. It's a fantastic piece of kit as far as ISP provided modems go!
I do wonder how it compares with the new Sky/Vodafone Wifi7 boxes though.
Being the cheapskate I am I'll wait until one turns up on CEX 😉
Cex usually charge more than what they cost brand new! Adverts.ie is where I’d be looking for 2nd hand. Just go with a trusted seller and you’ll be fine.
Maybe it's been there all along but OBS are still running the €30 a month BB deal through Pure telecom.
Cheers for that. Logged on just there (first time in April) and it shows my account balance as -€100, and I should have a bill generated in two days, so looks like it's working correctly!
CeX is full of stuff that was meant to be returned to eir but weirdly not many of the WiFi7 routers yet!
I'm lucky in that I work for eir so I was able to get one from work as the WiFi7 system is only meant for the 5Gb package, it's overkill for the 1Gb that I'm limited to as staff but I still wanted it
I signed up for this deal a few months ago. First bill was for a higher amount as it covered more than one month but now I got a monthly bill and it was for 35eur instead of 29.99. Had to ring them to have it rectified.
Spoke with sky today and best they would offer was 33.50 for bb. With TV being 25, it's €58 all in. Still kinda worth it as I get netflix and Disney plus for the kids. But a jump from the 45 I paid all year.
https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124449593#Comment_124449593
I am also on the same boat. Prefer 1 Gbps connection, eventhough realistically 500 Mbps may be enough. Do you think GoMo may offer a 1 Gbps fibre broadband in near future? Or is it better to join for the 500 Mbps connection now and cancel it any time as it a rolling 30 day contract, when they offer (if at all) a 1 Gbps connection?
Other BB providers may also offer some good deals to counter GoMo one.
I had similar thoughts. But came to the conclusion that if a 1Gb product came along then I'd just sign up for that.
Gomo modem arrived yesterday. Setting it up now.
I'm still waiting for the router and I'm due to switch tomorrow, when did you sign up? Can you see what the login details are? Are they the same as Eir? Starting to stress here I don't fancy having no BB for the weekend…
Switched and had switch date for the 12th had no router. Got the message that morning that switch had happened all the house went offline.. 20 minutes later existing router came back on and all connected done a speed test which showed eir (gomo) so old Vodafone router worked was maybe 20 mins offline.
Thanks for that, hopefully it does the same for me.
