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IF YOU’RE PAYING for life insurance, a few tweaks could help you save up to €5,600.
That’s according to the National Consumer Agency Survey, which looked at a number of companies and their offers.
The NCA’s life insurance comparison survey revealed that consumers can make potential savings of up to €3,087 on mortgage protection insurance.
Couples, meanwhile, could potentially save up to €5,687 on dual term-life insurance and €3,881 on joint mortgage protection insurance.
Differences
The survey revealed that “small differences in monthly premium payments” can result in significant savings over the term of the policy, said the NCA.
The survey also showed that smokers pay on average 85 per cent more for their life insurance.
The NCA looked at six of the main insurance companies in Ireland.
Four profiles were used to gather quotes on term life insurance, mortgage protection insurance and whole of life insurance.
Findings
The most significant findings in relation to cost, showing the difference between the cheapest and most expensive quotes, were:
Fergal O’Leary, director of consumer contacts and insights at the NCA, pointed out that mortgage protection and term life are long-term insurance policies, and aren’t renewed annually, so it’s important to do research before you take out cover.
Our survey highlights that what can seem like a small difference in monthly premiums can result in a large saving over the policy term. For example, a difference in a monthly premium of €2.74 for a 23-year-old non-smoker seeking term-life insurance cover over 35 years results in a saving of €1,151 over the policy term.
He urged people to compare the quotes from a number of companies and/or brokers before they take out cover.
Smokers
The survey shows that smokers pay, on average, 85 per cent more for their life insurance.
For example, they looked at a 45-year-old consumer seeking cover of €190,000 for 15 years.
If this consumer did not smoke they would pay on average €32.26 per month, however, if they do smoke they would pay on average €63.36 per month.
O’Leary said that if you haven’t smoked in the past 12 months, “you may be able to substantially reduce the amount you pay on your monthly premiums”, so you could check this out with your provider.
Mortgages
The NCA’s research also considered how changes in relation to mortgages may impact on mortgage protection or term life insurance.
It was found that if there is a change to the original mortgage, the existing policy may not be sufficient and you may be left with a shortfall in cover.
O’Leary also advised that anyone who is thinking of making changes to their mortgage, to inform their insurer in writing.
For more help, the NCA has a website that you can visit.
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Thanks to Three, our broadband speed is about 0.16Mbps. They received 90 million euro from the government and are contractually obliged to provide 2.3 in rural Ireland under the Rural Broadband Scheme. Three couldn’t give a toss. They took the money and did f. all.
In order to get out of the contract with Three, they demand 250 euro! It’s a disgrace.
Kim did they supply booster box? If not get onto them!
You do know who has the contracts and control, yeah? It all started with a little provider called Esat and a little worm called Lowry.
If you are looking for a decent download speed try Zurich Airport.
On my recent travels I got just under 100 Mbps.
I downloaded a full HD movie in no time.
Ireland is as usual still insular in this respect.
And “E I R C O N” is a company full of false promises.
Went to Vodafone store last month, unlimited internet for €20 they said… But you can use only 15 gigabyte they never said, and if you’ve a good internet speed 15 GB’s nothing! Felt cheated ! Always read the term and conditions.
Can’t stand Three, with them myself, absolute nightmare. €35 a month for 60G and the pleasure of brutally slow download speeds, random outages, useless and unhelpful tech support and, to crown it all, the lovely cancellation fee of €325 when I lost patience and demanded to leave. Roll on November, never again. Greedy shower of incompetents couldn’t give a fiddler’s fcuk about their customers.
and an even bigger worm whose name must not be spoken
You should be easily able to cancel your contract if the guaranteed speed cannot or will not be provided to you. All contracts have two sides. You agree to pay a specified amount and the other party agrees to provide the service. If they try to take you to court you should win without question.
€32 unlimited, i never use the landling & have mobile with em.
darn I should have stuck vodafone in there somewhere
Kim I fell for the three broadband also. Read many reviews so was aware of the problems but as it was my only real option I thought it was worth the risk given the price. When modem arrived it seemed to work ok but a month in things went downhill. It completely stopped working. Once you have a problem you are screwed as they have the worst customer service I have ever encountered. It took me 4 months of endless phonecalls and letters. Writing directly to their CEO and threatening to go to comreg and returning their modem eventually got attention. A service team came out and said I should have received a booster aerial and also found the modem was dodgey. I eventually got a booster and better modem and a refund of payments made. It works a bit better now but is still very very inconsistent and nowhere near the service they are contracted to provide. As soon as a viable alternative comes my way Three will be out the door.
Have to say I’m very happy with my Eircom broadband, rarely have issues with it and when I do I have always been lucky with the person at the other end of the phone.
I was confused about this also.the unlimited refers to time of use…day night peak off peak etc, not bandwidth used. It is however misleading IMO.
My mother was conned by Vodafone too. Had war on the phone with them and still waiting two weeks later for a call back to sort it out.
Im with three or 3 and by god they’re terrible my speed goes from about 300kbps and 3mbps but most of the time it is around 1mbps and somtimes its 300kbps which i get so angry about it so can somone do something about it
There should be a free trial with broadband .its totally unfair to sign up to contract without knowing the speeds you can get .
I’m no expert but surely under contract law if you can prove that your not getting speeds you signed up to you can cancel it without a fee
Yes but when you get broadband you are not promised that you will get lets say 8 meg its sold as up to 8meg so somewhere between .5 meg and 8 or however they word it sad thing is the further away from the exchange the less chance you have of getting decent speeds anything beyond 6km is pretty poor up to that you should have a reasonable connection and some even get it up to 8.5-9km depending on line conditions
Further into the country you go the worse it gets with badly maintained electric fences on farms running in close proximity of telephone lines causing interference and slower than normal speeds
They word it saying “up to xmbs” depending on distance from the local exchange and various other factors.
I vaguely remember a call for service providers in the UK to set minimum speeds in their advertising, so instead of saying up to 30mbs they should say at least 10mbs but up to 30mbs. Its reasonable to say what people can expect to get when paying for a service instead of hoping to get.
There is Mike. Like when you purchase any sort of product or in this case a service, there is a cooling off period of 7 days from when you receive the device. This comes under the Distance Selling Regulations.
Check on comreg.ie for more details
http://www.askcomreg.ie/tell_us/phone_and_broadband_contracts.247.LE.asp
There is 30 days with everybody
If you did complain in the first 30 days , stop complaining now
I have found that broadband companies will have the argument theres a obstruction in the house that is slowing the broadband down this has been said to me on different occasions I dont know enough to contradict anyone.
Badly wired homes wrongly fitted filters faulty extensions – extensions connected off the main line before the modem is connected all affect broadband – properly wired setup can improve broadband significantly
Pretty sure that you can cancel ( change your mind ) on any contract within 7 days under Irish law. Correct me if I’m wrong anyone in the know.
I have cancelled with 2 companies with very different services within 7 days of signing a contract with no penalty.
7 days should be plenty of time to know whether you’re getting what you paid for.
Thats bollix! Its 1 multi core cable into the home. Its only 1 pair used, and thats tested after installation. A badly wired house has nothing to do with a telephone line.
It has a lot to do with it as ac/do fluctuations can massively affect speeds
David you havent a clue
Its a 2 pair not a multi core
Yes one pair is only used but if the modem isnt connected to the main point then you are at the mercy of whoever wired the house as to the quality of your connection
Some homes were wired using untwisted stranded alarm wire as phone cable thats rubbish for broadband but works fine for phone service
Others have extensions connected off wrongly for extra phones or alarms etc and if they are unfiltered they kill broadband
Why not offer the broadband company a payment up to the specified amount. If they only provide half the speed you should only have to pay half the fee. It seems only fair to me. The broadband company know where you live so they should know what speed they can really offer you.
Offer to pay them to have their technical people correct the problem. If they fail to fix it then they have no case against you if you cancel your contract. If however they do fix it then you did have a problem and now it’s all working well so it would be worth the cost.
Thats already an option most people go for a self install as its free but the option has always been there to have an engineer install it correctly when you requested broadband as far as im aware
Hi Ger,
You are right. 7 day cooling off for any contract in Ireland. A lot of people aren’t aware of this. It’s in the T&c’s of the contract they sign.
Where I live a carrier pigeon is faster….
Had Vodafone and omg stay well away from them crooks, I have efibre now and its the business!
Thanks for that info!!
I’ve been with Vodafone ’07 and find them to be perfectly acceptable.
Vodafraud
I have Vodafone and it’s ok but am considering changing to sky, any idea what they are like.
Hate to break it to you Paul, they’ll be the exact same if not worse. Sky, Vodafone, Magnet, they all use eircoms crappy lines and no matter who your with you’ll get the exact same speed. The only other options in ireland are direct fiber (Rare) or UPC.
Faster and cheaper
DO NOT SWITCH TO SKY! Yes they are cheap but they dont use efibre and when questioned theyll tell you they also have no plans in the foreseeable future to use it. I had them and my speed was around 1.5mbs switched to magnet and its 70mb, same line so i dont what sky are up to. Only good thing is they will let you out of the contract.
Just signed up to Vodafone BB at home. Turns out I can’t even get 2mbps…..complete sham!
Vodafone are the biggest shower of cnuts going…
Well you have 7 days to cancel the contract so I suggest you do it first thing Monday. A few friends/family are with Vodafone and not one of them has a good word to say about the service.
Download speed brutal. Upload speed brutal x 10
About 100 meg with upc…
I have 200mB download and 12mB upload with UPC. It’s the most stable consistent broadband I have ever had and I’ve tried several. It’s also much cheaper then the 3mB I had before. Their “Anytime World” phone service is really great also.
John – Hi from Galway!
Live miles from anywhere in the southeast section, of the southeast, but get download of 25MB and upload of 5MB from a small broadband company called Carnsore Broadband. God but life would be difficult without decent broadband!!!
.83Mbps up
.10Mbps up
The decimal point is a couple places to the left of where it needs to be so I can actually run my business from home.
After a persistent Vodafone sales rep kept asking me to change over from my eircom broadband to them I finally gave in. What a mistake I made. The service is disastrous.
Could you not have told him to sod off?
From my experience Vodafone don’t give a toss about their customers. Stay well clear
50mb download upload 5mb.i am living just outside carlow town
Stop mocking us!
Love my isdn connection. Finally downloaded super mario brothers last night. ;-) weird noise when I connect though??
I’m happy with my internet at home. Averaging at about 40Mbps on eFibre. Although the signal isn’t as strong as it used to be for mobile devices. If I download a movie it’ll be done in about four minutes and I look forward to Eircom improving their service.
Is efibre available to rural communities?
He’s just saying…
I’m just asking…
This maps here shows the areas where eFibre will be available. http://www.eircom.net/efibreinfo/map/
If rural communities want to pay for it yeah. It’ll be €;15,000 per house please.
Actually if you read tbe small print. ..it says not all homes in an efiber area can actually get efiber…so wouldn’t believe eircon maps
I was paying for 70mbs from Vodafone and then found out that my broadband was capped at 15mbs. When I approached Vodafone they said it was upto 70mbs at certain times. Maybe at 1:00am did the speed go up to 22mbs, but mostly it was around 8mbs….. What a rip off
30mbps down, 10mbps up.
Benefit of living in Dublin,
Pretty much same here in wicklow
About 45mbs down and 14.5mbs up on eFifbre, but then the speed better be damn good because you’re paying enough for it.
Here’s an interesting link from the UK regarding the naming and shaming of the streets there with the slowest broadband speeds. It’s also interesting to note that my download speed is considerably faster than many of their fastest, although theirs is possibly not through fibre – and no doubt costs a lot less.
http://www.itv.com/news/2014-04-24/best-and-worst-places-to-live-in-the-uk-for-broadband-speed/
@Daniel That’s at the lower end of what’s available in Dublin. UPC’s top tier package is 200 down and 10 up.
198mbs down 25 up upc 250mb fibrebroadband
Averaging in at around 5Mbps, could be better still a bit slow when downloading large files and when everyone in the house is using it but for the majority of the time it gets the basics done. We also live a bit out in the countryside so comparatively it’s good so that’s why I’m not complaining!
Eoin, I’m sorry mate but that sounds like a perfect electorate for Fg to me. “It’s not what I want but it’ll do!” Grow some fkn balls man and don’t ever take less than you deserve. Won’t be seeing you out protesting any time soon I guess!
Who put the router up your arse?
Sorry Niall but considering the internet isn’t magic and you need to physically lay fibre it costs a lot. 5Mbps will stream HD video and a 30 min 720p X264 TV show is only maybe 150 Mb which shouldn’t take more than a minute to download at full whack.
Stop being a tool.
About 6km of fibre laid passing my home in the middle of nowhere about 4 years ago. They destroyed the road and we have heard no more about it since. No fibre bb service but its physically there.
If anyone has UPC in their area and is on eircom I urge you to swich as much as I can. Eircom speeds: 2.2mbs/0.8mbs €60 per month. My current UPC speed: 114mbs Download/30mb Upload. €54. Unfortunately UPC is mostly Dublin only for all ye rural folk.
120mbps down, 10ish up. Don’t always get the full amount but it’s pretty consistently good.
Efibre ?
I would imagine that’s UPC. Pretty sure efibre only goes up to 70 down.
Nah that changed last week higher available now ;)
Vectoring upgrade has just started being rolled out – check it out
Cheers for that Liam. Especially with the introduction of eVision, they’re finally becoming competitive and challenging UPC in the bundle market.
Efibre being activated here next month looking forward to trying evision and hopefully 70 meg speed as the house is about 200 metres from eircoms fibre cabinet – mostly wanting to try tv service as its cheap and saorview is crap and dont want spending a fortune on sky
Yeah. Their TV service basic package is very cheap. Mind you, there isn’t a whole lot of channels on it but it has all of the basics. Don’t really use the TV for anything other than the Rugby games.
Discovery channel and quest and im happy
Problem is the efibre wifi router is an untested, bottom of the barrel piece of kit. Absolute pain and Eircom have no idea. They launched the damn thing untested.
Yep, I’m upc. Heard horror stories about them but aside from one or two hiccups (5 days no service, they halved the bill though) I’m happy with the service.
I’m with Eircom and last year my phone and broadband were down for 2 days. Eircom deducted 25 euros from my bill and gave me 30 euro credit off my next bill which I thought was very fair compensation, I really cant complain about them.
You can say the same thing about the modem routers being provided by UPC. They’re cheap pieces of crap. Have disabled DHCP on mine and am using my own router.
Can’t get a phone signal where I live never mind broadband….. Had to resort to satellite broadband which is a joke and ridiculously expensive.
15 mins drive away there is 3G mobile and fiber optic broadband.
And to make matters worse I live in an area which isn’t “commercially viable” for Eircom to upgrade the lines. What a joke.
Have UPC Horizon, 120 down and 10 up well that’s what is advertised. Get about 30 and 5 up due to the horizon box been an utter piece of crap. Wifi signal is fairly poor from it, better off with a stand alone router.
Have you complained about it? If you press it they can give you a stand alone router
Ring em up. We had the same thing, called me back within 24 hours of receiving that piece of crap box.
Requested an actual router an had it in 2/3 days.
Y’know what really grinds my gears? This whole craic of advertising unlimited data with ‘fair usage applies’ in small print.
What happened to 4G solving this problem. How much did it cost for RTE to go digital so that bandwidth could be sold to multinationals. We all sufferer higher licence fees and had to purchase a saorview box to allow these companies to profit providing a service that is described as a human right. That plan must have failed or these same companies have failed to deliver the service promised. Pointless asking if the rabbit lied again it’s a trademark by now.
I live outside Thurles and Broadband coverage is non-existent. Even Eircom could not guarantee any sort of broadband speed through the telephone line. I have a Three Dongle providing the Broadband. I just checked the speed and it is as folows: download 1.11mbps and upload 0.98mbps. I had to cancel my netflix subscription, it takes so long to watch a streaming movie. So frustrating, as I work from home and depend on the broadband.
Ironically my broadband in my mothers home in Wexford is far better than my broadband in Dublin city centre. I live across the road from Google HQ and have UPC broadband, and most of the time the broadband speed is less than 2mbps even though they are advertising 100mbps everywhere!
Thats contention ratio at its finest
I’m now on 200Mbps from UPC after many speed increases. The truth is the actual speed has decreased every time they increased it. I probably get an average of about 500Kbps download speed at the moment.
I get 22meg in enniscorthy, never an issue with wireless speeds
43mbps with UPC, good enough
The problem in this country is that every broadband provider bar UPC ‘piggyback’ off Eircoms lines. So as a rule of thumb, your Eircom bb is crap, then whoever else you sign up to in your area wont be any better unless Eircom upgrade the lines(which they cant do in most cases as they’re nearly bankrupt). Upc have their own fibre power bb lines installed but depending on the area its hot and miss. Im paying for 8gb bb in my home, since the storms download speeds have been 0.22 mbps , and thats down from 0.76mbps. Its a complete crime that im paying for a service and they’re not providing it, they along with every other bb provider have their arses covered with legal jargon in the small print.
The funny thing in Ennis was that magnet promised 70mbps fat pipe fibre before eircom got around to offering it to customers who’d left them. Generally speaking I don’t get the full rate, but it’s usually at least 20 downstream & I’ve very often had my upstream rate faster than download rate! Great when I’m working from home, most of my colleagues are outside main urban areas so can’t dial into a meeting using voip when they need to present material. Heck my rate at home is better than at work most evenings.
Just did a speed test now: 3.91 Mbps. This will be down to 0.51 Mbps this evening, when I actually want to use it (Netflix). Is this traffic or what? I’m paying Permanet €50 a month for this luxury (along with a landline)
Have you tried switching it off and back on from the back of the router ? I have to do this at least 3 times a day and it works every time ! I’m with Eircom !
I’ll try anything: are you saying just pull out the power cable on the router for a few seconds?! Fingers crossed!
No ! At the back of the router there is a small square black switch .. just press that down and it flips up … press it back down again ! lol!
if you live outside of Dublin your chance of getting good broadband is very very slim
That’s absolutely wrong. Anywhere upc is available is fast. Mine is 120 down in waterford.
I pay a reasonable fee for fibre and rarely let’s me down. I don’t mind paying money for a service that I know is reliable. But rural communities suffer from extortionate prices for limited services provided. You’d swear these BB companies don’t make enough money to make a few upgrades at local exchanges or even at that, the government pulls the finger out of their holes and start investing properly on communications throughout the whole country. Wasn’t there something like this meant to happen?
I’m only four miles from carlow town and was recently told by EIRCOM that it wasn’t financially viable for them to up grade the lines so we could receive decent broadband. Even though I informed them that I rarely I used the phone line.. Calls came to about 4 Euro a month and line rental was 23 Euro for the same period so it didn’t make sense for me to keep the line unless they upgrade. I have now cancelled my contract with EIRCOM and some of my neighbours are doing the same. So we’ll done. EIRCOM great customer service. NOT
If it’s a house on it’s own then they would have to lay fibre to the door as the exchange is likely a fair bit away. So say it’s 10 euro a metre to lay the fibre? It adds up.
I don’t understand why Google, Facebook, eBay etc put up with the poor broadband for their employees in their homes. It should be at least as fast as Korea 1gb. Japan etc. we are supposed to be a leading light in Europe for IT research and employment. Instead of spending €4 Billion on Irish per year just invest in the money in IT infrastructure instead. Imagine what our future would be like. No emigration no unemployment black spots.
Does this include mobile broadband cos we don’t have ordinary broadband. Told for years it’s not available. Weak enough mobile.
Eircom = rubbish
Eircom = bad customer service
Eircom = expensive
I will leave when my contract is up.
I find this whole broadband thing pretty weird. I mean when you think that Ireland is one of the top countries for its size for mobile phone use… You’d think we’d have top of the line technology infrastructure.
When I moved here from the US, I thought I could fortify my income with Web development. Unfortunately, the bi – directional upload/download speed was so poor that I had to abandon this idea.
Sadly, I pay for the top tier UPC rate for the fastest speed…. Still I average about 100mbs. Which I think is very slow for the money.
If you’re paying for the top tier with UPC you should be getting 200Mb down, provided that you have a gigabit Ethernet port.
Where’s the choice for Non Existant? Live in communication blackspot of Ballymacarbry Co Waterford. Noone has internet bar using a ridiculous dongle. Ain’t nobody got time for that
UPC seem to be leading the way, simply because of how long they’ve been around.
I’ve looked at the map of the proposed roll-out of efibre and my area is not included. It looks (as usual) as if clusters around towns and villages will be served but if you live in the country outside these selected areas there is still no prospect of a broadband service being provided. I’m tired of hearing about urban areas getting faster and faster speeds with a choice of providers while rural areas are still dependent on pathetic speeds or none at all depending on proximity to some distant mast.
Eircom dreadful. Vodafone dreadful. Efibre is very limited coverage even when they say an area is covered it doesn’t mean the whole of the area is covered, eg, according to eircom gorey has efibre – by which they mean centre of gorey, rather than the gorey postal area
200meg download / 10meg upload. Free 300minutes calls to mobiles/local national calls. can’t complain for 50 a month
I have to use mobile broadband because the max we can get in 1mb on a landline… if we lived 400m up the road in the north…we would have fibre!!! Typical eircon krap
If u ran any decent poll, u would ask the PROVIDERS NAME.
This would show clearly, the Company or Companies who deserve consumer support. The poll should also be broken down by County.
In its present form ur poll is useless.
Whatever you don’t go with q sat awful service and con artists
It’s not just Ireland. I’ve a client in west London and he has to pay £500 per month to get broadband, the normal one was so bad.
5 Mbps is the best I can get with vodafone landline broadband but I only get about 3.5. It gets the job done, barely. It’s a far cry from the 50 Mbps I used to get in Dublin with UPC. There are sacrifices that have to be made when moving to the countryside.
I think UPC have done a good job investing in their infrastructure and Eircom are catching up. I think in terms of future proofing we should be going for fiber to the home rather than fiber powered as UPC offer. This type of service means that your connection is not slowed down by contention ratios. I appreciate that this would only make sense in larger towns and cities around the country.
Moved to eircom back in October to get the Efibre … Sales guy said we would have it in two weeks.
We are still waiting… On the eircom website we are in a Efibre area but when you ring you are told there is no Efibre in the area… Keep away from eircom …
Did you not read the sidebar Martin before signing up? I’m on their alert list for when e-fibre will be available from the Ship St. exchange.
There was no sidebar … On the day I signed up the sales guy had his laptop showing we where in an Efibre area and that it was on in the area.
Houses on the next road down from me have Efibre .
Eircom are just a bad company .. Bad customer service.. Bad working practice ..
They have cutback so much on staff that they just don’t have anyone to connect it.
I’m getting about 170 Mbps by combining magnet, my 4g connection and… A random other connection using http://www.connectify.me a Kickstarter funded software application for Windows and Mac that combines various connections. Highly recommended.
Get about 100 Mbps in the city centre. I bought a tiny 7 euro USB WiFi adapter off eBay so use three connections with the software in the city by connecting to various free coffee shop WiFi and mobile 3g or 4g.
Doesn’t work so well in the middle of nowhere but it cam combine as many 3g connections as you have ports and WiFi cards on your computer so give it a try if you’ve got poor speeds.
So how much is that working out at and if its cheaper than what I’m paying any chance you could set it up for me?
Isn’t it great how the ministerial positions are made up as they go along!? “Jaysis pat, there’s nothin goin here now (in my besht Mayo accent) but sure hang on, how would you feel about communication? “Hahahahahaha, wouldn’t that be ironic!?”
Getting 200 down 10 up on UPC in Maynooth. 52e/month
UPC isn’t too bad. Pity about the Horizon though.
I recently got Ripplecom very fast internet at peak times. They can give you internet so long as you can see one of their masts very good service their website is
http://www.ripplecom.net
If im in our living room and try and get on to the internet, i’m there for ever. When i walk 15ft to our bedroom, i’m on it right away !!?
If your ISP is not providing what they were contracted to do contact the regulator and complain when they want to charge you for moving elsewhere. They soon cop on on it is a contract the same as any other you enter into, My ISP could not give me the basics of what they were offering when I told them I wanted to cancel they said I would have to pay a cancellation charge. Contacted regulator, paid nothing.
There should be the option – non existent.
Eircom broadband is an intermittent service in our area. If it is windy no service …..
If your isp is not providing anything near what you contracted to contact the regulator. Dont bother after minimum exchanges with your isp; and there disconnection fees. No or service well below what you are paying for means you can extract yourself without incurring charges.
Avg. About 43MBPs down and About 13MBPS up with Eircom. Been with them 7 years and can’t complain. Any problems sorted promptly, contrast to what I hear from most…
It ranges from 15 mps to 0.2 mps on a non congested line. Eircom are the most inept company in Ireland. Wonkers.
0.8 mg download ,0.11 mg upload
Moved to a small town in the midlands and have been trying to get broadband since Jan!. Ineptaphone were good value but like my experience with 3tard mobile a few years ago ,you are screwed if there is any trouble due to shocking customer service. The issue it a seemed was with the line and I had to contact direcom. After an hour + on hold I was told to call back in 4 weeks just to see if the his house could even get broadband. I’ve been using my phone data connection, 1 or 2 GB a month since the start of the year. I might as well wait for googles balloons or facebooks solar drone gliders at this point.
I know its practically flogging a dead horse at this stage but Eircom can only provide a horribly unstable 2Mbs service 5 mins walk from UCC campus. In the same place and for the same price one can get 100Mbs from UPC with TV……..
If anyone gets the opportunity go to UPC.
Been with them for 5 years easy. Have given us 2 free speed upgrades.
Started on either 25 or 50mb, upgraded too 100mb for free, then upgraded us a year later to 200mb for free.
I was with Eircom ..i had a reliable broadband all be it slow . Moved to Vodafone on same line same package only cheaper…. Broadband is now the worst ever. Broadband is in and out all day so you cannot rely at all on it .. dial up is faster
With Sky .The line is rated for 20Mbps.On a good day I can get 12 most days it’s sub 8. It actually fell off to 600Kbps at one point. Can’t get UPC in my house but if I was 50m down the road it would be no issue. Frustrating to say the least.
Im 8km outide nearest town and 3km from exchange..during the day it averages about 4 to 5mb but in the evenings and at night when the line congests it goes even slower than dial-up!! Watching House of Cards at night became painfull despite being a mega show!!
Download = 5.40 Mbps and upload= 286 kbps with Eircom
very happy with my upc broadband unlike their tv now thats crap
Anyone with Sky ? Are they any good ?
I get between 43-47 down and 10 up. But ping and jitter are what’s important. Eircom fibre is by far the best (UPC is not in my area unfortunately)
4mb with Eircom but just 4 doors away, they have 50mb eFibre, the exchange is less than 100 meters from my house but apparently we can’t get it
In UCC off peak you can get up to 400/500 Mbps it great.
varies between about 1.8 and 4.6 with eircom. as yet efibre has not reached us but meant to be next month. however originally was meant to be around last august. dates keep on changing so hopefully when we do get it we will get better speeds
What speed is ideal for live streaming?
I live just off a main road between two big enough towns which have both been upgraded to fibre since before Xmas. There’s a school with fibre 500m from my place.
There’s businesses on the road and they’ve been trying to get UPC to come out to them for the past 2 years with no luck. The recent Eircom upgrade doesn’t seem to have done anything for our speeds, 4.2 down and 0.42 up, sometimes slowing to 3.9 down.. It’s rather annoying, when we had WiMAX in the town it was faster.
North Clare and half the time I cant see videos because tis so slow, even if there’s noone else usin the internet
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