Magnet broadband

Anyone know how to put my PS4 in to DMZ?

Stuxnet wrote: »

Login into box as admin, > toolbox ..gaming.. > Assign the DMZ to a local network device > ps4 ip > enable

Thank you so much!

Couldn't get into PSN store or play any games on FIFA at all, but it seems all good for now.

i can't seem to see an answer for this, Fatpipe Fibre Residential users can tell if their connection is still being throttled on non http ports, curious to know as i use alot of FTP and if i can't get full speed i might have to cancel package.

Just stick a wireless access point in as a bridge, and use that. I actually use a free wireless N device i got from the samknows crowd that monitors my bandwidth, and gives hourly stats. Which is nice. [Its free because they use that then for provider benchmarks and so forth]

I keep mine sperate personally:

[Internet] -- [Magnet Box with Magnet IP] --eth0-- [TPLink] ---Wired & Wireless on internal IP range, all static

Their router. I leave that connected to their network, and then use my own device as a gateway between their network and my own.

I posted here about a year ago. Best advice to all is to get rid of Magnet (Assuming you're on the no-contract package). They are desperate, they even offered 7 months free if I stayed with them. Seriously the best decision I made.

I switched to Eircom and I've never had one fault. Magnet lie about everything they do, they claim they don't throttle but they clearly are throttling port 80 (Most important for pretty much everyone) according to speedof.me, their router is a mess and makes it impossible to work in cohesion with another bridged router. They disconnect every day. Seriously, do not trust them. There is no reason to not move to Eircom (or UPC). Eircom own all of the cabinets and it's clear their customers get priority over everyone else. No slow speeds at night or anything.

ED E wrote: »

If that were true Vodafone BT and Skys NOCs would detect it and COMREG would come down on them like a tonne of bricks. Lose the tinfoil hat. The only difference between eir VDSL and the others is the need to route to handoff point which might add a ms or two.

Magnets problems are an apparent inability to run a network, they've always throttled FTP to 1MB/s even though its a pretty dead protocol and have had other strange issues.

I lived in Donabate village and was with MAgnet, as I refused to have an account with Eircom and would rather have paid Magnet directly, due to issues with Eircom in years previous.

I was paying €67 a month for 24 ADSL, and from the 12 months I lived there, I had 10 months of issues. I eventually moved from the area because of the piss poor internet infrastructure. I found Magnet helpful throughout, to the point of having my package cost reduced drastically, and after contacting COMREG I got a partial refund for a number of months it was such a mess.

All the while this was going on, I got both a visit from an Eircom sales rep, and a coldcall from eircom, both offering me their package. While advising that I was with MAgnet who wholesale from them in the area, and I wasn't moving to Eircom for the same terrible service, their reps, both, advised I'd get more reliable and faster speeds as a direct Eircom customers, rather then a third party customer on the infrastructure.

So while it might be tinfoil hattery, its obviously something reps use to try trick those less informed to sign up with them in areas where customers use other suppliers. I used those two instances as part of the details I forwarded in regarding my case which probably greatly benefited the result in my favour.

Pity cause when Magnet first came about a friend highly recommended them as a top class business/commerical ISP, and he got one of their first domestic packages and it was incredible speeds and reliablity. They just never expanded, and if they throttle, well thats the death of an ISP for me.

TheDoc wrote: »

Although quickly checking that fatpipe service now, €57.99 for 100mb isnt that appealing when in most cases UPC/Virgin is available in the same areas as Magnets own network.

Unless you have some pr*cks that instigated a monopoly on the construction in an apartment block, and hence no UPC cabling done.... :P

Personally have found Magnet fine here in Mallow Cork since I switched to the Business package with SLA last year - a few minor hiccups, but nothing worse than BT in the UK when I lived there. Last two weeks had a problem with some but not most websites not loading (maybe a packet loss or MTU problem on some routes their end?), but firing up a VPN solves that. Just about to upcall the problem to technical support, which for the business package is a single named person per account (good). I expect it'll be fixed shortly, otherwise the SLA pays me money.

In the end all Fiber to the Cabinet (FTTC) is really Eircom. Anyone reselling FTTC is going to be no better than Eircom thanks to Comreg by definition that it's the same backhaul transport. What happens between Eircom Fiber backhaul and the rest of the world is down to the ISP's peering arrangements - Magnet is good to the US, average to Europe and not great to the rest of the world, indeed sometimes my VPN is actually faster than without

I would have no problems recommending Magnet. They aren't perfect, but they are good bang for the buck given the competition. I have had much better with specialist ISPs in Britain and Canada, but they require you to be not-a-consumer to join and there is no equivalent in Ireland.

Edit: As part of preparing the support request I did a speed check and spotted 100 ms latency and just 30 Mbit download. That made me suspicious, so I rebooted my firewall (I have my own) and voila, problem websites are working again, ping times are back to ~11ms, speed test is 67 Mbit down 19 Mbit up i.e. all is well again, and none of it was Magnet's fault. I must remember to reboot the firewall sooner next time this happens.

Niall

Hi, this my first post on boards.ie, so please bear with me

I'm about to move to a Booterstown Hall apartment and I was thinking getting Magnet (UPC is not available unfortunately). I don't care of high speeds (I currently have UPC 30mbits and its just fine), what I do care is getting a reasonable speed (30/50 is fine) and moreover reliability as I use to work from home few days a week. Also I use Netflix a lot and do some torrent (but I could work this around of needed).

I cannot bear with throttling when it comes to working from home: I use VPN to a port I cannot change and use everything inside it, including video conferencing.

Now, I read posts about throttling and a couple of more recent posts where it said throttling is not a thing anymore.
Can somebody tell me how fatpipe 100 works now?

Magnet is my first choice because of good speed with US and has no contract.

Alternatively, sky and eir are available as well: sky fiber is the cheapest of the three but I've read horror story for their ADSL (but could not find anything about fiber though). Same goes for Eircom.

Any suggestion appreciates.

Of course, go with UPC does not apply here. I'd like, but I simply can't.