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Mobile Broadband?
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Just a quick question of a slightly more serious nature –
Anyone using/tried one of those Mobile Broadband things in the Republic?
No broadband out where I live now, would like to be able to access e-mail n’ some basic stuff. Was thinking about getting one, I remember my cousin having one about 2 years ago and I thought the speed of the service at the time was crap.
Cheers
JJohn, I’m looking into this at the moment for different reasons. I have spoken to all the providers and seem to be heading for o2 at a cost of around 20 euro a month. I tried the 3 version at home one evening between 7.00 pm to 9.00 pm and it was incredibly slow.
If you speak to the providers and give then your address they should be able to tell you what speeds you will get. Also I’m sure they will give you a months free trail if you ask for it.
Dave.
I had one in west cork last year it was crap got rid ,Iwas also told by eircom that they could not do broadband so i changed to perlico and they were able to do it same line works fine
it was incredibly slow
Cheers Dave – that’s what I suspected.
The cousin’s was the same back in the day… pure muck. I’ll see if I can get a free trial but other than that I’d say my interested is in great decline as I had a feeling that all it would be is glorified dial up.
Thanks again.
JCheers ocon – I’m right up in the sticks now, not even close to a village. Eircom moaned about putting in the feckin phone line… I doubt there’ll ever be broadband there.
Jeez John are you still on BOGBAND?
My brother was with 3 and he had to permanently hang the dongle out
of the window in the house to get a quality speed.His download limit was 10gb per month, he went over it by 1gb and they
billed him for €53.00 extra for the 1GB !I used to live in town and had broadband. Last year I built a ranch and moved out to the shticks. Now I only have BB either in work or when I frequent the parents gaff.
It’s good not having it at home too… less time at the computer, less online shopping, less relentless stalking etc.
yep I hear ya! its hard to get stuff done here in the office at work
with this PI and particulatly the GC place . . . must get IT to restrict access
to the Hinternetnah
An interesting fact:
Ireland is the most expensive country in Europe for fixed line broadband and the cheapest for mobile broadband (apart from Albania, Moldova and other countries that don’t have the vast wealth or at least cost of living of our Celtic Tiger).
The reason I believe is to do with the concepts of Monopoly (fixed line) and Competition (mobile).
Whether the mobile BB works I don;t know, however it at least won’t cost ya much!!!
I have one of the three mobile broadband things that i use out on site, when working on shows etc
its a pay as you use type deal
speed is not fantastic BUT it seems to work, when i need it to
normally get 150-200 k out of it
which is shocking compared to my house broadband, but better than nothing when on site
Thanks for the feedback lads.
By the sounds of it I think I’ll waste my money on something else. I’ve a distinct feeling I’d end up chucking it out the window with frustration.
Cheers
Ji’d agree with the others.
some shops might let you have a loan of one to try in your place because the coverage is as variable as the connection speed is.
worth trying though….I dont own one but did borrow an O2 one to see what they were like. Try it for 30 days John and see how you get on. I got very good speeds around town (Dublin anyhow), I was also getting almost 1megabit in Drogheda where i live, worth a try….
M
My understanding is that it would work well in main towns and cities
where there are planty of masts and signals bouncing around and of course
this is where buisness customers are, I would wager that along the main
motorways and roads linking the main towns and cities would be good as well.I would say that the back-end of bally-go-backways with a small catchment of
houses or a small population isnt going to be high up on the roll out list.Hav’nt 3 won the nationwide contract for mobile broadband?
nfl-fan wrote:
Last year I built a ranch and moved out to the shticks. .
Not on a ranch, but out in the sticks; the exchange is about 4 miles as the drunken crow flies/bt’s wiring goes.
They said we were at the limit, but over the last few years speed of connection has improved, and is
quite reasonable now.Mobile broadband seems to have poor coverage — at least in UK — and variable speed [read = slow].
Others have tried satellite connections, though they ain’t cheap, and you need a phone line to uplink.
Even in England, there are places without BB, and the locals have grouped together to set up their own
transmitter [there is one somewhere in Kent] — are you completely isolated?We have a cable connection in Switzerland [for the TV] and this is very quick, but we are in a village there.
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