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| blowin |
server for slow landlinesCan anyone recommend a server that is more reliable than eircom on these ridiculously slow landlines ? I get 28.6 kps at best and it falls over every 5 mins .FWIW One-tel actually told me to go to someone else . But I guess that is marginally better than Eircom . They can't provide broadband on my line but could hook it up to ISDN for an exhorbitant e49 RENTAL per month ( ie excluding the cost of any calls ) . From memory the connection fee would be around 200 euro ----- and might not work anyway . No , they could not test the line until I was actually connected and no , they would offer absolutely no guarantee that it would work at all . Fer fecks sake ! Sorry , this is turning into a rant . Eircom have that effect on me ! Is there anyone else ? I mean ANYONE !!! |
| quarryman |
UTV Internet or BT |
| blowin |
Many thanks Quarryman . Now , since I happen to know that you have broadband perhaps I could ask you to save me a few hours of aggravated searching by providing me with a link where I can sign up for their package and/or a dial-up nbr for pay as you go ? That would be very nice   . All the best .
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| quarryman |
http://www.btireland.ie/AtHome_anytime.shtml gives you 3 dial up packages.
It looks as if UTV Internet is no longer supporting dialup as The North has 100% broadband coverage. Remember that in a few months 3 will be providing you with wireless broadband. |
| roiphil |
same here 28 kbps  get your act together lads, looking at bbnet 1mb broadband myself, www.bbnet.ie is it available in your area
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| quarryman |
Blowin's problem is that Eircom have supplied a bit of string attached to a tin can as a telephone line.....
Roll on 3 broadband roll out. Roiphil if you are more than a mile away from a main exchange you will not be able to get BT Broadband. We are out in the sticks but have managed to create a "line of sight" to a wireless transmitter so we can now get 2mb broadband. |
| roiphil |
With eircom, dont get bt this part of the world, with eircom i have been told that if you are more than 5km from their exchange you cant get broadband, we are less than 5km but the exchange has not been updated for broadband  but they have done all the others around
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| blowin |
Many thanks for that info . I'll check out the bt dial-up .
We are close enough to an ( old ) eircom exchange for them to support ISDN to a house which is a mile further away but we are at the end of a branch off that line . The carrier is apparently incapable of anything much better than the 28 kps . I spoke to 3 after you pointed out my confusion of them with 3G . As you say , they will be covering this area in due course .... but aren't going to service little valleys like ours in the forseeable future . We don't have line of sight with anything except trees and mountains . That is quite nice most of the time
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