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shane7218 wrote: »

Im using digiwebs too way service and its disgraceful 0.5 download on average for the apparently up to 20mb. Nothing else availbale in the area and only living 10 minutes outside of a big town. This country is still in the stone age.:mad:

That's a lot more common than you think. It's certainly not a problem unique to Ireland and you have to make sacrifices in services when you live in peaceful, rural areas. Those who live in the hustle and bustle of the cities get rewarded with better services.

shane7218 wrote: »

For a country this small it shouldn't be any sort of an issue to have a "basic" broadband service available to everyone. It's not like i'm living in the middle of no where you know.

It's small but so is the population. Houses in the countryside are scattered, so it's not financially beneficial for Eircom to build an exchange that will serve one hundred houses. Would you open a restaurant or bowling alley in a town or outside of a town? You would make more money in a town and it make economic sense to build them in towns or villages.

If Eircom refuse to build an exchange in your area, then they obviously believe building one would cost them more money then it would earn them.

Anyway, I don't where you live but if your telephone line is more than 4km long (I think), you won't be able to get broadband. My line is 2km and the exchange is only 600-700 meters from my house as the crows fly.

In South Korea, the people live in densely populated areas because they choose to live in apartments, whereas, Irish, and probably Europeans in general, love the countryside. South Korea has some of the fastest broadband speeds in the world.

I'd love to live in the countryside, but then my broadband would be crap, my phone service would be crap and the bus service would also be crap.

tayto lover wrote: »

Eircom broadband is useless too.

How so? Most people find it stable, it's just really fúcking expensive.

tayto lover wrote: »

On off on off on off on off.

That happened to me once, turned out the line between the socket and the router was too long. I was using a line I found in my house to bring the router upstairs instead of the 1-meter line you get with the router. I had to buy a DSL cable and run that through the ceiling instead.

I never really get disconnects, maybe 2 a day at most, but that's due to high noise on my line. When I'm upgraded to fiber, I should have ano more issues - I hope.