Do any Wireless IP's give good service ???

[Garp242]

I've been looking around for a new Wireless Broadband provider (currently with O2 in Carlow Town & signal is very unpredictable at best !!) But reading through the forums on this & other site's, I'm fast getting the impression that they're all the same ... slow, unreliable and nothing close to their claimed speeds !! I changed a few months ago from Clearwire because it was expensive(€50 pm), but at least it worked reasonably well, most of the time (with the help of clear-plugs). I don't have a phone line so have to stick with wireless ... Can anyone recommend one in this area, that does what it says on the tin ??? .... or are they all useless ???

[dickiesam]

Hello Garp242,
I'm not in your area, I'm further east in north Wexford. But, as I posted some time ago my experience of wireless has been good. I'm with Regional Broadband since last July, basically because there was no-one else able to give me a broadband connection. The Eircom exchange is only about 500 yards away but, according to one 'straight-talking' local Eircom engineer, it would not be enabled until hell freezes over or I'm in the local cemetery!

I have their basic package, 1 Mb down, 1/2 Mb up, for 35 Euro a month, and apart from the occasional glitch when speeds drop off, I am getting around 85% to 90% of the package speeds. 1 major outage on a Saturday morning couple of weekends ago caused by a transmitter fault was fixed by 10 AM the following Monday. Even at the lower speeds, its still a damn sight faster than the dial-up I had to tolerate for the previous 10 years. Plus, I get access to the web 24/7 at a third of the dial-up cost.

So they are not all bad, probably most of the bad ones have oversold their connections, under-specked their equipment in the first place, and are very slow to upgrade and invest.

Anyone else out there who is happy? I think we are quick to complain when things are bad and slow to praise when they are good.
Cheers,
Dickiesam