Comments on: Mobile Broadband in Ireland – Muck

By: Mick

Mick — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:42:44 +0000

ive been with Vodafone for a year now then all of a sudden i cant stream moives anymore tv series etc i just talked to BORAT from dat support and he gave me some cock & bull story about there being loads of dat inb the area and it would be fixed by 12 midnight 2morro night i wait with baited breathe :):) i have to wait till 10 o clock to hit the library so i can watch Game of Thrones last episode which means i have bring my laptop with and the stick what a pain in the BOLLOX and true blood starts back next week.Mick kerry

By: Helen

Helen — Tue, 25 May 2010 12:29:31 +0000

Hi Everyone
I have read all the comments with interest. I am coming to Mayo Abbey for a month in the summer with my family and I would be interested if you could give me some advice on which broadband dongle to get to use with my laptop both whilst staying in the house with the family and also whilst touring around in our motorhome. I don’t have one in England so I.m a novice with these things but I do have virgin broadband 10gb so it pretty fast to work normally so I know whatever I get will be slower.
Thanks Helen

By: paul

paul — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:40:40 +0000

Hi John,

The unit is called WiBe is costs around 300.00 euro plus Vat.

It will be available from the 01 April 2010 and will it sit on any 3G
network.
Insert your data sim and off you go. I will keep you posted we are just
finished testing and trials. First production available very soon. The data
sheet attached is a bit dated the new one will be out next week.

Regards.

Paul.

By: John

John — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:30:10 +0000

Hi Paul, tell us more about this unit and what it costs

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:35:02 +0000

Hi All,

We have a unit that will make your mobile broadband sing! Which ever provider you ar with.

It will find the a mast with the best data signal lock on and give real service based on sim package purchased. It is a fixed unit for home and office and is also wifi inabled.

e-mail me for more information

Paul.

By: john

john — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:05:46 +0000

I live off the Navan road D7( in the Ashington estate (Rise) and have tried all the major mobile broadband providers and overall the signal strength and speeds are crap. O2 |(2 years ago) was brutal with speeds of about 70kbs a lot of the time. Got rid of it just as I was being certified for a mental home. Next provider was Vodafone. Brutal service but got a bit better if you went upstairs and leaned out the window !!. Next provider was 3. Went from bad to worse. I had enless long calls to India. They always said that they would ” accelerate it ” which I thought was great, However they meant that they would move my complaint – quickly – to another department !!. Finally I tried ( Dec 09 ) Eircom( Meteor ) which has the best local signal and speed -for my address-. I can get between 1-1.5 meg. Mornings are best. so set your alarm early !! Honest. I cant believe it. You- Tube at last and good quality SKYPE. All of the above modems worked much better in the city centre for me. But the most frustrating thing was when you visited the provider shops and they showed you these amazing coverage maps , with speeds of not just 3.6 Meg, no they were showing speeds of 7.2 Meg. !! wow. This is such a crazy country. PS. O2 have just sent me an email to say that they have just put on line a new arial at Ashtown gate and this should provide an improved 3g servise for the area. its up to you.

By: Ciara

Ciara — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:44:03 +0000

Hi,
Would be grateful for any advice from anyone who can offer it! I live in the UK and am due to spend a few weeks in Ireland (Kerry) this summer with family. Unfortunately family have no internet access so I am looking to purchase a mobile broadband dongle. I recently bought one of these here in the UK however, it is not practical to use abroad with roaming charges etc.. so am better off buying an Irish one (It will get used in future anyway) Trouble is not sure which one to go for? Any advice much appreciated!
Thanks,

By: DENNIS

DENNIS — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:25:35 +0000

3 BROADBAND DO NOT HAVE A CLUE WHAT THEY ARE ON ABOUT WITH THERE COVERAGE IT JUST IS NOT THERE DO NOT TAKE ANY NOTICE OF THERE MAPS THEY JUST ARE CR-P AND SO ARE MOST OF THERE SHOPS
MIND U IT TAKES ME FORTY MINS TO OPEN MY EIRCOM E-MAILS IM 24 MILES FROM WATERFORD AND 8 FROM DUNGARVAN
THE VILLAGE THET DOSE NOT SEEM TO BE ANT ONE MAPS????????

By: patrick

patrick — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:47:50 +0000

Hi,

I had a 3 modem for 1 year and was delighted to see the back of it cos it was rubbishly slow and i was starting to pull my hair out because of it. I switched to reach broadband and it has been great for past 9 months but recently it has been getting really slow. Anyone else experiencing slow speeds with reach? I live in a small village in carlow.

By: Ian Kenefick

Ian Kenefick — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:18:30 +0000

Just had a three (Ireland) salesman try to sell us a 3g modem. Aileen had invited the salesman into the hall so we could close the front door(it was freezing), not realising I had canceled my 3 mobile broadband contract only a week ago. I don’t know if the salesman knew this and this was some customer retention effort? Anyway, I felt obliged to interrupt his hard sell. I didn’t want to waste his time because I was’t interested thinking he’d be better off trying to make his commission elsewhere. He asked why – and I replied. I said my experiences using it were bad enough for me to cancel the subscription a week ago.

I described it as slow and inconsistent and despite the low price of €19.99 per month – was not worth the money as it failed to provide me with a decent enough connection.

Basic tasks took to long to complete, like checking eMail and downloading attachments quickly, like broadband should. Publishing photos to flickr and my blog was slow too and I do this quite a bit.

The sales guy said I was “wrong”. With a sarcastic tone he said “Good luck with finding a new provider because if you think 3 is bad, they are worse!”. Elegantly put Mr. Salesman ! He went on… “3 is really great, I use it myself and you are really wrong about 3. It’s way better than Vodafone and O2″. He was enthusiastic but at the same time irritating and clearly had no interest in what he described as my “opinions”. To be fair, the other services could very well be rubbish. I can’t say as I’ve never used them before. I went with 3 because it was cheap and I have to say I didn’t have any heightened expectations about it either. I expected that it wouldn’t perform anywhere near the “up to 3.6Mbps” advertised speeds but I didn’t expect it to be as bad as it was for me.

I appreciate that a number of factors might have influenced the performance of the connection such as high contention, congestion on the network at peak times and signal strength and quality. More so now than ever, there’s no point in paying for something if it’s not working properly.