yes indeed, I have to agree with most of what you said.
Callidus Europe, or Omnitel. (Remember: Callidus bought out Torque, Omnitel bought out Callidus. Omnitel are owned by Callidus Europe. So it looks like they bought themselves.)
A 1 Meg connection in 2008 is totally ridiculous. I didn't sign up with them over a year ago because they said that they were about to upgrade to 2MB, but a year on they are still in cloud cuckoo land when it comes to speeds. The only other company I know of who has 1Meg in Kildare is the totally rip-off Quantum Broadband, who are available in Rathcoole, (Robaustin).
I thought the Callidus connection was OK, it very rarely failed, but it did slow down for a few hours some evenings, caused by illegal filesharers and downloaders ruining it for everybody else.
Ice broadband are available in a lot of North Kildare now and their download speed is 5Megs, pretty impressive, although I don't know how good they are on the residential side of things. For business use they are fantastic.
Just before Christmas I cancelled my subscription with Leinster Broadband and my life is much simpler now.
A couple of months ago one of my phone numbers finally passed the pre-qual test with Eircom and I was chuffed, so I ordered straight away. That was the day before the fire in the telephone exchange in Roberstown, which was quite extensive. Anyway, after the fire my line was no longer passing the broadband test, so I never received my BB from Eircom. Bummer
I'm using my o2 USB modem now and it's not bad, but it gets very, very slow in the evenings
Now I will definitely have to put a mst up to get ICE BB, from the church in Coill Dubh, even then I can't quarantee that will get me a signal. Oh, the joys of living in a rural location.
My brother is in Stepaside and he has 12Megs with NTL, but I still don't regard that as amazing. The Japanese cities have 50Megs, so much for Ireland being hi-tech!!. But, to be honest, I'd be happy with a connection that let me play XBox live without problems, It sound so simple, and when I say it to friends in other countries thay can't believe how sh1t Broadband in Ireland is.  |