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Magnet experiments with 1Gbps broadband in South Dublin Apartment Complex

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  • #2
    AlanS181824
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭AlanS181824


    €50 per month is mad money...

    Meanwhile in Romania you can get 1000Mb for €16 per month...


  • #3
    Ben D Bus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭Ben D Bus


    AlanS181824 wrote: »
    €50 per month is mad money...

    Meanwhile in Romania you can get 1000Mb for €16 per month...

    But since incomes are about 20% of Irish incomes, the Romanians are in effect paying 60% more :)


  • #4
    BeerWolf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf


    AlanS181824 wrote: »
    €50 per month is mad money...

    Meanwhile in Romania you can get 1000Mb for €16 per month...


    I'd gladly pay for it, to be but a dream ofc since it'd NEVER be available in my location...

    No, I got to make do paying €30/month with Vodafone's 20GB mobile broadband package [for gaming with], and THREE's 60GB package for €35/month --- so I'm paying €65 / month for a measly 80GB data allowance... and the speeds aren't even that great!


  • #5
    tom_murphy112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 270 ✭✭tom_murphy112


    I would avoid magnet at all cost... they tell me that they have a manufacturing fault with the routers that causes phones to stop working every couple of days (no audio), they haven't fixed my issue in 7 months.. they have to be ashamed of themselves..


  • #6
    shruikan2553
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    AlanS181824 wrote: »
    €50 per month is mad money...

    Meanwhile in Romania you can get 1000Mb for €16 per month...

    It costs me 47 for 100mb. For an extra 3 euro thats a great price.


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  • #7
    Praetorian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,720 ✭✭✭Praetorian


    I would avoid magnet like the plague as well. Total and utter joke of a company.

    Rolling out 1g/bit to 120 apartments is fooling no one.


  • #8
    marno21
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 14,931 Mod ✭✭✭✭marno21


    AlanS181824 wrote: »
    €50 per month is mad money...

    Meanwhile in Romania you can get 1000Mb for €16 per month...
    Meanwhile in Cork you can get 8Mbit for €45.

    ... :)

    If I could upgrade by 992Mbit for €5 i'd take it


  • #9
    bk
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 24,053 Mod ✭✭✭✭bk


    I think the point is that this is just Magnet running 1gb/s to one or two apartment buildings for marketing purposes.

    It won't benefit the vast majority of people.

    The news of the ESB/Vodafone FTTH network coming to 500,000 homes is much more exciting and important news.

    As is Eircoms eFibre/VDSL network coming to 1.4 million premises. Or UPC's network getting 1gb/s with DOCSIS 3.1.

    These are the important news, not this!


  • #10
    carrotcake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,086 ✭✭✭carrotcake


    AlanS181824 wrote: »
    €50 per month is mad money...

    Meanwhile in Romania you can get 1000Mb for €16 per month...

    It's €10 now :D

    http://www.rcs-rds.ro/internet-digi-net/fiberlink?t=internet-fix&pachet=digi_net_fiberlink_1000


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