Digiweb Mobile

[.:iE/Dixy]

Has anyone any experiance, good or bad with the Digiweb Mobile service in north Dublin area. I am interested in this for online gaming and a bit of p2p and want to know opinions beforehand please.

[serek]

Originally Posted by .:iE/Dixy

Has anyone any experiance, good or bad with the Digiweb Mobile service in north Dublin area. I am interested in this for online gaming and a bit of p2p and want to know opinions beforehand please.

Hi,

It strongly depends on area you want to use it. Generally it works quite ok. It could be using for gaming in places where coverage is good as pings are stable and average is 30-50 ms which I think is really good result for non line of sight wireless broadband.

p2p - the problem is that there is a limit 10GB - 20GB (depends on package) which is like nothing if you are thinking about p2p. Bear in mind that those limits includes up + down traffic.

Regards,
Sergiusz

[.:iE/Dixy]

Its mainly online gaming in the St. Margarets/Swords area of North Dublin. p2p aint a major problem, i dont use it a whole lot so down caps dont bother me. The current Irish E-Sports servers are hosted by digiweb in Blanchardstown aswell so hopefully should give me nice ping times to them.

Irish E-Sports

[serek]

Originally Posted by .:iE/Dixy

Its mainly online gaming in the St. Margarets/Swords area of North Dublin. p2p aint a major problem, i dont use it a whole lot so down caps dont bother me. The current Irish E-Sports servers are hosted by digiweb in Blanchardstown aswell so hopefully should give me nice ping times to them.

Irish E-Sports

The problem with wireless broadband is that you never know until you try it in your location.. especially with the one which does not need Line of Sight. Ask sales if you can send it back to them within the week or 2 if you will not be satisfied. I have been using it, but never out there and never for gaming, however I have used it on M50 for Skype and works great as long as I was in covered area.
One more thing worth to add. If you compare Digiweb Mobile BB with IBB's Ripwave (theoretically very similar as both are non line of sight broadband) is like comparing turtle and ferrari I have been using Ripwave earlier on.. Let say I was using as more often I was seeing light on it flashing meaning - no connection and when I got connection it never got close to offered 0,5Mb.

With Digiweb Mobile BB I was using skype with good results and also youtube streaming works pretty well even while moving quite fast.

Anyway ask if you can try it, as results may varying in various locations.

Regards,
serek

[serek]

Originally Posted by .:iE/Dixy

Its mainly online gaming in the St. Margarets/Swords area of North Dublin. p2p aint a major problem, i dont use it a whole lot so down caps dont bother me. The current Irish E-Sports servers are hosted by digiweb in Blanchardstown aswell so hopefully should give me nice ping times to them.

Irish E-Sports

One more thing regarding gaming servers. If they are colocated with Digiweb you just need to add up to 5ms to the latency between you and base station as this is usual delay within core network.

Btw. Did you think about Metro instead of Mobile BB? If you want to use it at home only I would suggest fixed wireless. This would give you better speeds and higher limits.

[.:iE/Dixy]

tryed IBB they are rubbish. Have eircom dsl atm and due to rubbish cabling from house to exchange the most it will handle stable is half a meg connection so that going. Spoke to digiweb about the mobile and they have a 14 day trial, if you dont like it or it doesnt work then return for a refund so thats cool.If you are getting good connection over skype then the qos must be high with low packet loss.

All bodes well mate and i will be ordering it today as it takes a week or so to get here and i will post back results when i have them. Cheers for the details

[.:iE/Dixy]

I have now had Digiweb Mobile for 2 days and i have to say it has so far been very very good. After a few false starts trying to get the best position for a signal i finally got a download speed of around 2.6mb with an up of just under 1mb. The pings are also fairly good considering its wireless with times on average to irish game servers of 30/40ms. The one thing to be careful of it the router itself and the installed firewall and default services. When i first turned it on the firewall had no holes in it what so ever and i had to allow every programme access to the internet. By default it also closes all ports and i spent the first night opening all the ports needed by games and services but happily after setting them all up it works like a dream. Downloading files and p2p also chugs away at full speed with very few (but some) glitches or slowdowns. Overall i am very happy to say Digiweb have finally gotten something right and long may it continue. Just to note i am in the St. Margarets/Swords area of North Dublin.

[rinnin]

Just been onto sales guy about this and sounds interesting. They're calling it "4g mobile" with max dl 5.4megs upload 1meg. About €30 per month with €130 installation & 15GB cap.
In the rural Clonee area of Co. Meath (near Damastown) and was thinking of getting this. Anyone have any good / bad stories about this service & do they still have this rolling download limit / cap that features in other discussions?
Mainly wanting it for home / small business use. I see you get a PCMCIA card but none of our laptops have slots - wonder can I flog it.
Advice much appreciated.