Question for Irish broadband users

[Jared Katooie]

As you may know, Eircom recently dumped a load of its users onto their new "Next Generation Broadband" service, which basically means that we all get saddled with a 30GB download/upload limit. If we go over this limit we get a substantially inflated phone bill for our temerity.

So I guess my question is: Are there any better service providers out there? From what I've heard, other providers are having trouble even providing stable connections or workable speed levels. Of course this is mainly Eircom's fault too, since they own most of the lines, but this is little comfort.

If there are no better providers out there, what, in your opinion, is the "best" package available from Eircom? Are we stuck with our current payment plan?



Yours sincerely,

Jared.

[maryanddavid]

I think your stuck with it at the minuit, after two years in the wilderness of mobile broadband, I at last have a landline broadband  connection again. I went with Vodafone anf have a 40gb limit. I dont do gaming  so im not likely to reach that, although I do find myself using the rte player a bit this weather. I think wimax that imagine are slowly rolling out will give faster speeds and lager downloads but Mayo is the one place in the country they havent friggen covered yet. Can you get it from UPC? I dont know what they offer, but they might have something better.

David

[Noisybast]

Lager downloads? Awesome. Is there some sort of additional pipe for this? Could I get bitter, or maybe a decent pint of Guinness?

[Richmond Clements]

Could I get bitter

I think that one's only available in NI.

(one for the locals, there!)

[Van Dom]

I've got broadband with UPC and am pretty happy with it. Went for the unlimited download 20gb service but they upped me to 25gb for free after about 6 months as a loyalty bonus. Which was nice. Very fast, very stable. There is the ODD time where the connection fails but these times are few and far between so nothing to complain about really.

[I, Cosh]

30GB limit?! How much porn can you watch in a month?

[Jared Katooie]

More than 30GBs worth anyway.

Stupid Germans...