Home Broadband Access

**EnDai** · 22/08/2005, 2:44 PM

I'm just moved house, and so left my delightful NTL 3000/300K cable connection behind; very sad!

I loved it! Sheer quality!

Will be using IOL/BT now until NTL become available in Bray, until such an incident occurs, I refuse to allow money to be handed to Errorcon!!

Otherwise, go for one of the wireless products stated. Be warned, several of these are plagued by exteremly high contention ratios which leave you with little bandwidth, and suffer from terrible pings.

**paul_oshea** · 22/08/2005, 3:01 PM

here mate, that has told me that we can get it for the last year and a half, but we cant, its bloody annoying and misleading, and in my eyes false advertising, along with ***** teasing.

unless you live right in the town ( i.e. its less than 4km from exchange you cant get it, though i have clocked our distance by the telephone poles as they go right along the road, and we are only 2 miles i.e. less than the stated 4km, again misleading and false advertising in my opinion.)

**paul_oshea** · 22/08/2005, 3:05 PM

endaj what are the general contention rates?

25:1 over 250k ???

50:1 over 512???

again that is misleading information, hardly no one knows about contention rates when applying for broadband and its one of the most important factors to consider when choosing between 250, 512, 1mb and different companies.

**EnDai** · 22/08/2005, 3:24 PM

For the wirelss companies, I BELIEVE its 48:1. (It varies from company to company). Which means, when all 48 users are online at the same time (which apparently is very frequent with the way they spread out their users across the masts etc), you are only guaranteed to get 1/48th of your advertised bandwidth.

So, 1/48 * 2048 K (2 Megs) = 42.66666667 K. Which is the same as you get with dialup 56K usually. Delightful eh?

If its only a 24:1 contention ratio, you will have about 85K, which to be honest, isn't worth the money it'd cost, it'd still make more sense to go to the local net cafe, or keep the 56k dialup!

�rrorcon and BT and NTL don't seem to have many users ever complaining about poor speeds etc. IBB etc do.

Boards.ie have a good Broadband section, thats useful, and tbh is a must read if considering it as it has feedback from users on pretty much every product by every company!

**Ruairi** · 22/08/2005, 3:43 PM

No mention of price on the clearwire site, or if tis available in cork..

want to get broadband at home but i've no landline, but i think to be honest broadband is more of a "want" than a "need".. still though..

**dahamsta** · 22/08/2005, 4:17 PM

Originally Posted by Gareth

My exchange is only currently suitable for eircom Broadband

If Eircom can supply you with DSL via the exchange, every other DSL provider in the country bar one (Smart) can supply you. I realise you have other reasons for dealing with Eircom - I'd be curious what they are - I'm just pointing this out so people understand that if Eircom can supply it, anyone else can.

Originally Posted by Ruairi

No mention of price on the clearwire site, or if tis available in cork..

There's no prices because they're still trialling it. I don't think they've rolled out the equipment in Cork yet, but a phone call will find out pretty quickly.

adam

**carrickharp** · 23/08/2005, 7:02 AM

Got a reply from Clearwire on Friday and it will be early-mid September before they will be ready in my area in Dublin.

**Gareth** · 23/08/2005, 8:53 AM

Originally Posted by dahamsta

If Eircom can supply you with DSL via the exchange, every other DSL provider in the country bar one (Smart) can supply you. I realise you have other reasons for dealing with Eircom - I'd be curious what they are - I'm just pointing this out so people understand that if Eircom can supply it, anyone else can.

adam

Adam, the strange thing is everyone I ring up get my number and tell me they cant provide to my house. Eircom did the same for ages too. Then they said I could get it. The rest still say I cant. I cant get NTL or any cable service. Wireless is not an option either so I am stuck with Eircom. Having said that, the only bad thing about the service is the price at the moment. Everything else is dandy.