[ILUG] wireless broadband

[Hamilton, David (TSG C&I)]

I also have the IBB 2 Mbit Breeze service and find it absolutely excellent.
I regularly get transfer rates in excess of the 2Mbit, up to about 240kb/s
at times.
I have never actually rang the support line, but have heard from others that
it has gone from diabolical to OK in the last while.
The only problem I ever had was that their DNS went down one weekend, so I
just set up my own :-)
The nice thing about the breeze service is that you get a static IP as well.
I used to VPN into home when I was away until I bricked my linksys WRT54G.

	D.

-----Original Message-----
From: ilug-bounces at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-bounces at linux.ie] On Behalf Of
Conor Wynne
Sent: 22 August 2006 20:19
To: Andrew Court; ilug at linux.ie
Subject: Re: [ILUG] wireless broadband

On 22/08/2006 19:14, "Andrew Court" <syklops at gmail.com> wrote:

> To be honest I wouldn't start with boards.ie. Most of the people 
> complaining about wireless broadband on Boards.ie also are regular 
> posters to many of the gaming threads on boards, which would suggest 
> they are gamers, and wireless broadband is not suitable for gaming.

I have had IBB 2 meg for a year now. It seriously sucked for most of the
year until I forced them to put me on another high sight.

I went from serious packet loss -> which affects games but more importantly
- VOIP. You simply cannot have VOIP with packet loss.

I sometimes had a connection of 1mbit (on a 2mb)  but more often 35k to 65k.
 
> Also the rest of the broadband threads are people complaining about 
> various other ISP's who are not wireless based. From this I can 
> surmise that either broadband companies in Ireland are terrible, or 
> that people go on to boards to complain. To be honest I think its a 
> little of both.

YMMV, my experience was terrible, fortunately all is now resolved (11 months
later). If only the were competent enough to actually charge me for the
service. Believe me I have tried to give them money, many, many, many times.

Regards
Conor. 


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