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    #92
    monkeyslut
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭monkeyslut


    Which is the best place for first years moving to Galway?
    I'm looking into Corrib and Centrepoint. I don't know which one to choose.

    :confused:


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    #93
    xEmily2011
    Registered Users Posts: 59 ✭✭xEmily2011


    monkeyslut wrote: »
    Which is the best place for first years moving to Galway?
    I'm looking into Corrib and Centrepoint. I don't know which one to choose.

    :confused:

    Corrib is the best as far as i've heard :) so i booked there :P Best place to meet new people and all. heard they're also fairly good at matching people to rooms!


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    #94
    Laochra333
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭Laochra333


    Ive got a place in cuirt i know its ment to be fairly strict but how bad is it?


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    #95
    ciano1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭ciano1


    Laochra333 wrote: »
    Ive got a place in cuirt i know its ment to be fairly strict but how bad is it?

    The worst in Galway!


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    #96
    Squeeonline
    Registered Users Posts: 2,555 ✭✭✭Squeeonline


    ciano1 wrote: »
    The worst in Galway!

    I heard that one year, a group of students tried to tunnel out. I heard one even made it to city but was caught. Cant find the video of it at the moment on youtube, but I believe it was turned into a movie. Great Escape or something similar.


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    #97
    Grindylow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,919 ✭✭✭Grindylow


    Hi guys! :D

    I'm a 6th year and was looking into NUIG, but I really can't afford the whole €800 deposit thing on top of their extortionate rates, and I'm worried that if I don't live on campus that I'll miss out on all the craic in first year.

    Anyone have any ideas? :(


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    #98
    ciano1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭ciano1


    Noel2k9 wrote: »
    Hi guys! :D

    I'm a 6th year and was looking into NUIG, but I really can't afford the whole €800 deposit thing on top of their extortionate rates, and I'm worried that if I don't live on campus that I'll miss out on all the craic in first year.

    Anyone have any ideas? :(

    Try and get a place in Dún na Coiribe.... Its literally right beside Cuirt and Gort na coiribe. Theres lots of students living there too and you could also easily pop over to Gort or Corrib Village ;)

    Keep an eye out on daft... Dún houses seem to be always popping up


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    #99
    RolandIRL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,924 ✭✭✭✭RolandIRL


    heard bad things about Dún landlords, not giving back deposits and such. Castlelawn Heights is just above them on the Headford Rd, much cheaper but a bit longer of a walk into college, especially if it's raining.

    or try and get a place in newcastle, only a short walk to Corrib Village, and quicker to college. keep an eye on daft and the advertiser site.


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    #100
    ._.
    Registered Users Posts: 334 ✭✭._.


    What is it with Galway and having booking fees for everywhere :mad:


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    #101
    xEmily2011
    Registered Users Posts: 59 ✭✭xEmily2011


    ._. wrote: »
    What is it with Galway and having booking fees for everywhere :mad:

    Everywhere has booking fees :L It's a deposit so if you mess the place they have something to use to get people in to clean it with at the end :L and so it pays for your gas and electricity and all :) and to secure your booking of the place. It makes sence really :)


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    #102
    ._.
    Registered Users Posts: 334 ✭✭._.


    xEmily2011 wrote: »
    Everywhere has booking fees :L It's a deposit so if you mess the place they have something to use to get people in to clean it with at the end :L and so it pays for your gas and electricity and all :) and to secure your booking of the place. It makes sence really :)
    UCD and TCD don't :p
    Well, not until after you've been offered a course there that is.


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    #103
    Camilo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 92 ✭✭Camilo


    Got accepted by Cuirt, should be happy that i got there but it sounds like such a miserable, conservative prison :(

    Anywho Im in 14c, any of my future roomies up in here? :D


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    #104
    ._.
    Registered Users Posts: 334 ✭✭._.


    I'm pretty sure i'm going to book Dunaras Village pretty soon. Im the quiet type who studies a lot.. So think this this place will be perfect. I like that a lot of the med people live here, but what really sold it to me was the fibre powered internet access :D


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    #105
    ciano1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭ciano1


    ._. wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure i'm going to book Dunaras Village pretty soon. Im the quiet type who studies a lot.. So think this this place will be perfect. I like that a lot of the med people live here, but what really sold it to me was the fibre powered internet access :D

    Internet in Dunaras (And ALL student accommodation) is utter SH*TE!

    You'll end up suffering the slow speeds or getting yourself mobile internet!


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    #106
    ._.
    Registered Users Posts: 334 ✭✭._.


    ciano1 wrote: »
    Internet in Dunaras (And ALL student accommodation) is utter SH*TE!

    You'll end up suffering the slow speeds or getting yourself mobile internet!

    But it's fibre :\
    I'll set my torrents to download during the night, it'll be fine :P


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    #107
    ciano1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭ciano1


    ._. wrote: »
    But it's fibre :\
    I'll set my torrents to download during the night, it'll be fine :P

    Its probably one fibre connection shared between a few dozen students :p
    People in Dunaras have problems using FB chat alot of the time!

    Funnily enough, Corrib Village is in the process of upgrading their internet so that each apartment has its own separate WiFi connection and its fairly fast (3-4mb which is SERIOUSLY a lot faster than any student accommodation internet atm)

    In Gort last year, I gave up on the internet there and got meteor broadband for a tenner a month. Does the job :)


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    #108
    ._.
    Registered Users Posts: 334 ✭✭._.


    ciano1 wrote: »
    Its probably one fibre connection shared between a few dozen students :p
    People in Dunaras have problems using FB chat alot of the time!

    Funnily enough, Corrib Village is in the process of upgrading their internet so that each apartment has its own separate WiFi connection and its fairly fast (3-4mb which is SERIOUSLY a lot faster than any student accommodation internet atm)

    In Gort last year, I gave up on the internet there and got meteor broadband for a tenner a month. Does the job :)

    Don't tell me that >_<
    Well, it said on the website that it the broadband was only recently upgraded to fibre, so lets just hope that it's new for this year :p
    I'm going to email them and see what to story is..


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    #109
    MissMoppet
    Registered Users Posts: 231 ✭✭MissMoppet


    Dunaras blocked torrent downloading.. I posted the pros and cons back a few pages somewhere..:rolleyes:


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    #110
    ._.
    Registered Users Posts: 334 ✭✭._.


    MissMoppet wrote: »
    Dunaras blocked torrent downloading.. I posted the pros and cons back a few pages somewhere..:rolleyes:

    Yeah.. I'm not a fan of reading 6 page long threads before I post in them, but I went back and read it, informative, thanks.

    Do you know if they're still blocked when using an SSL tracker?
    And do you know if FTP/SFTP is blocked?


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    #111
    Kinky Slinky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 432 ✭✭Kinky Slinky


    ._. wrote: »
    Yeah.. I'm not a fan of reading 6 page long threads before I post in them, but I went back and read it, informative, thanks.

    Do you know if they're still blocked when using an SSL tracker?
    And do you know if FTP/SFTP is blocked?
    They are blocked but work during the night sometimes but you have a load of seeders or it won't work. At the start of the year nothing was blocked and we were getting serious speeds. Every port is blocked except port 80. They IT guy uses some opensourse software can't remember the name but we tried loads of times to bypass it ... not successful. As all the ports are blocked no PSN and couldn't use a VPN service as well. They filterd the internet as well but that only half worked


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    #112
    ._.
    Registered Users Posts: 334 ✭✭._.


    Kinky Slinky wrote: »
    They are blocked but work during the nights sometime but you have a load of seeders or it won't work. At the start of the year nothing was blocked and we were getting serious speeds. Every port is blocked except port 80. They IT guy uses some opensourse software can't remember the name but we tried loads of time to bypass it ... not successful. As all the ports are blocked no PSN and couldn't use a VPN service as well. They filterd the internet as well but that only half worked

    wow.. They seem like they know what they're doing alright :p

    I really like the sound of Dunaras but i'll definitely need to be transferring a few GB a week.. I'll have to pick somewhere else I suppose :\

    I assume it's the same story with the internet access at NUIG itself then?


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    #113
    QueenOfLeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,109 ✭✭✭QueenOfLeon


    ._. wrote: »
    wow.. They seem like they know what they're doing alright :p

    I really like the sound of Dunaras but i'll definitely need to be transferring a few GB a week.. I'll have to pick somewhere else I suppose :\

    I assume it's the same story with the internet access at NUIG itself then?

    Student mobile broadbands can be quite cheap, I had O2 when I was in Corrib last year. Coverage was grand in Galway, terrible in a lot of other places in the country, but I only used it at college.


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    #114
    Squeeonline
    Registered Users Posts: 2,555 ✭✭✭Squeeonline


    You assume wrong. NUIG wifi is good where you're studying. Patchy in the corridors but what do you expect? Improving all the time anyway.

    WiFi in student accomm will be crap no matter what they say. It'll be one fibre connection shared between loads, it'll have things blocked like torrents (though if you're clever there are ways around it).


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    #115
    Zillah
    Registered Users Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    Last year we signed a one year contract for our apartment, lease is up August 9th. We'd like to move out a month early, so we want to sublet for the last month (July 9th - August 9th). The landlady said the tenant can then sign a long term contract if they want.

    It's a wonderful two bedroom (one double and one single) rooftop apartment in the heart of Galway city centre. Only 30 seconds walk from Eyre Square and all amenities. The apartment is furnished, has an electric shower, UPC Broadband, and all mod cons. Ten minute walk to NUIG, and because the apartment is on the 7th floor you're well above the noise. 750/month.

    Contact by PM if you're interested.


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    #116
    dapto1
    Registered Users Posts: 603 ✭✭✭dapto1


    Using torrents/warez on a shared internet connection is poor form, IMO. If you really need to download stuff do it in a quiet corner of NUIG near a router, you'll get seriously good speeds. Or just get yourself a student mobile broadband.


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    #117
    Zillah
    Registered Users Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    Or use something far more efficient, like Rapidshare/Megaupload etc. Torrents are so last decade.


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    #118
    ._.
    Registered Users Posts: 334 ✭✭._.


    Zillah wrote: »
    Or use something far more efficient, like Rapidshare/Megaupload etc. Torrents are so last decade.

    lulz.


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    #119
    VARIEGATED GIRL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭VARIEGATED GIRL


    DUN ARAS? is it suitable for second years??? :D


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    #120
    Squeeonline
    Registered Users Posts: 2,555 ✭✭✭Squeeonline


    VARIEGATED GIRL wrote: »
    DUN ARAS? is it suitable for second years??? :D

    No.

    Get a house in Galway with friends somewhere near the college.


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    #121
    mmmchoccy
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭mmmchoccy


    When do people normally start looking for houses/apartments?


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