[CLUG] Which Broadband offer?

[Ronan Kirby]

Peter,

I use IOL, but its bitstream through Eircom as they don't have their own
DSL gear in Glanmire. I have to say its very good. Since they all had
that session problem with their BASs there hasn't been a glitch.

I'm not sure what the cap is, I recall getting a letter recently to say
its increased. Suffice to say I have never hit it, although I don't do
any big downloads to home.

The router that came is a little ZyXEL box.

- Ronan

On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 12:02, Peter Flynn wrote:
> OK, after a little nudge in the right place eircom finally consider that
> my segment of Bishopstown is accessible to a broadband signal, so I can 
> now sign up -- with someone. Yay. 
> 
> Eircom are offering a €99 connection with a Cayman Netopia modem
> which they claim has both USB and Ethernet ports -- useful because
> my gateway/server is a bit old and the USB is an add-on card and
> Linux drivers for USB B/b modems are still rare and experimental. 
> Adding a second Ethernet card wouldn't be a problem though. But 
> eircom have a 4Gb cap.
> 
> UTVip are offering twice the cap and €29.99/month instead of €39.99
> (or €45 instead of €54 for the 16Gb cap option). I'm with them at the
> moment for dialup, but the service has deteriorated over the last few
> months, with their end of the link often going unresponsive for 
> several minutes at a time. Modem is a Zyxel P630, but for another €50
> they will supply an ADSL 4-socket router (Zyxel 645R-A1) which *does*
> have an Ethernet socket (as well as doing wireless and a bunch of other 
> stuff I expect).
> 
> What other offers are current, and whose deal is the easiest to connect?
> 
> ///Peter
> 
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