Which Provider? What Type Of Broadband? Broadband In My Area? !!POST HERE ONLY!!

Thanks, I didn't even look at eir, as I have had an absolute horrible time with them in the past, and they were 100% at fault, comreg got involved. I couldn't bring myself to look at them again even with that offer. Are GoMo the same company?

Three years later, and Eir still send out a monthly bill to us.

I tried Sky BB again, and managed to get another agent, who sent out a new router and signed us up to the Sky offer (as e had cancelled about a month ago). It is due to go active today, but I haven't swapped out the old router for the new one. They want the old equipment back, so I was planning on just sending them the new one. Or might that raise a few alarm bells in case they don't allow it? (The resigning up with BB before 12 months gap).

With Pure if you are on the Eir backhaul network you can use DHCP rather than PPPoE for the connection. I think its only the BT backhaul that needs the PPPoE connection.

I'm currently on Digiweb 100Mbps ADSL which includes a phone line… price is going up to €42.95 / month.. possibly higher as they said they are going to add another €5 on top though I'm not clear if that will also be for my plan.

100Mbps is plenty fine for me, I'm not bothered about fibre speeds and my streaming is fine. Also I'm not too bothered about losing the phone line. I only really ever make a landline call once every 4 months when calling companies that put me on hold for hours.

I see that 3Broadband 5G Gold is €25 per month (I am with Three already for mobile)… are those wireless setups any good (I'm Dublin-based) ?

Upload speed is 15Mbps vs the 20Mbps of Digiweb, but 150 Mbps for 3 vs the 100 Mbps I have with Digiweb

I have the Virgin Fibre cable outside the house, but dont want the hassle of getting a new hole drilled in my wall to bring it through.

I dont have Siro available.

So the only options im interested in are to use my existing phone line, or go with mobile.

When searching for options to use the phone line that's now called "Part fibre" is it? Rather than ADSL?

Who has good deals with VDSL?

They're not really advertised much. Nearly all providers would offer service through it, except Virgin. You'd just have to go on each of their websites and enter your eircode. Or try Switcher & Bonkers.

If it's Virgin FTTP available to you, you'll see full fibre options on Virgin, Sky, Vodafone and Digiweb's websites. If it's Virgin coax, it's just Virgin.

Virgin FTTP will be listed on the ComReg website as Virgin Media / Fibre / 5,000Mb/s. Virgin coax will be listed as Virgin Media / Cable / 1,000Mb/s.

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

https://switcher.ie/broadband/

https://www.bonkers.ie/compare-tv-broadband-phone/

I’ll def be using my own router so don’t care what they provide. It looks like Virgin don’t give you an external ont so that rules them out.

Eir on openeir feels like best right now. DHCP. Can use my own router. Ok price on 5gb assuming I can get a new customer price or close to it when I renew.

The April price increases you mention, is that €3/€4 extra per month or per annum?

What's happening in April that requires prices go up?

So I've narrowed down the part-fibre offers to Eir or Pure .. Eir I can get for €319 for first 12 months, and Pure will be €360.

Also Eir include free national calls, whereas I don't think Pure do

So I assume I switch to Eir unless Digiweb get back to me on Tuesday to match the offer which I doubt they will be able to.

Now the big question, how quickly will the switch be made? My Digiweb contract ends on 6th (after which I'll be charged a huge monthly rate to keep Digiweb for the extra month)… so if I sign up to Eir on 2nd will I likely be up and running by the 6th or will the only internet in my house be my mobile for a few days?

I'll ring them up in the morning just to be 100% sure that there aren't any cancellation fees involved if I change my account to a different company after the 12 month discount period.

I'm assuming it's similar to the energy supplier setup where you can change each year.

I mean Eir and Pure, want to ensure that signing up to them for 12 months doesn't incur a fee if I drop them after 12 months...yeah Digiweb are good about contract changes. They've always given me the "new user" price each year for last 10 years, but unfortunately even the new user price is higher now.

It should be possible to use my existing router right? Digiweb aren't asking for it back and it's a good make with great security.

I checked the setup on my existing router and seems the only Digiweb-related entry is a username and password in the "Account information" section, which I'm assuming was entered before I got the device as I don't recognise the username.

I assume I'll get that new username and password for the router from the new provider?