Upgraded packages from Permanet

[DaTraleeKid]

hi peeps it seems permanet r working on another big upgrade and r working on the phone i got a mail from permanet saying they r launching a phone product and gave me this link permaTEL register interest i had asked them a few times b4 if they were doing phone and was told will contact me when it will be coming out have also told me speeds will be fixed just before phone is out im hoping it will be a bundle and can tell me parents to get rid of eircon phone and get a faster connection from permanet with money we save.

[antirip]

Originally Posted by DaTraleeKid

hi peeps it seems permanet r working on another big upgrade and r working on the phone i got a mail from permanet saying they r launching a phone product and gave me this link permaTEL register interest i had asked them a few times b4 if they were doing phone and was told will contact me when it will be coming out have also told me speeds will be fixed just before phone is out im hoping it will be a bundle and can tell me parents to get rid of eircon phone and get a faster connection from permanet with money we save.

Speeds in the evening are still horrendous. The fact that skype is crap on it, they'd really want to be working on this issue and not a phone service!

[antirip]

Anyone else getting horrendous speeds?

2mb package

[Takeshi_Kovacs]

Aye, it has been pretty terrible here the last week or so, keeps dropping connection pretty regularly, and speeds are horrendous.


Does anyone know if there are upgrading their network, or is just gone to sh!t all over?

[andyh]

I'm on biz platinum 4Mbit with Permanet, at the moment I've also been getting around 0.5Mbps download and 0.4 upload.

To say I'm miffed is an understatement after all the downtime at xmas too and considering the price I'm paying.
I've emailed support and apparently they plan to have it fixed sometime early March.

[RichardT91]

I'm also getting terrible speeds,About 1/4 of my advertised speed..
Hopefully They're routing all the traffic through another network and updrading the one we're on,As I've been told an upgrade will be happening soon!

Also,As far as I know the PermaTel service will be using independant bandwidth aside from your package,Meaning you can be downloading and streaming youtube videos while on the phone(An issue we have with blueface),If this now isn't the case, I wouldn't change as I'd assume the prices will be the same as blueface..It does mean that permanet would need to install the SIP router and therefore you could be waiting a while depending on the popularity.

I am looking forward to seeing the packages and prices though!

[andyh]

I work from home and need to use VOIP a fair bit.
The VOIP service may be very useful indeed to me so I'm undecided what to do now. My jobs at risk if the service stays this way too long.
I don't see why I should pay for february at full price if I only get 1/8th the speed for the rest of feb. Does anyone on the forums use digital forge?
Is it having similar issues? ie do they share the same antenna etc as permanet?

[Takeshi_Kovacs]

Dreadful. Absolutely dreadful.
Permanet are utter ****e at the moment, with all the disconnects and very slow speeds, and with the below average package offerings by the them now. I dont know what they are up to, but they seem to be degenerating into a woeful shambles of an internet provider

[andyh]

I'll give it til the end of the month and cancel if there's no change I think.
I get a better connection if I use my mobile phone...
I can't justify paying the price for biz platinum anymore.