[ILUG] Irish Broadband in Lucan area - any good - Niall?

[Niall O Broin]

On 5 Mar 2005, at 12:21, Conor Wynne wrote:

> I'm just about to sign up to IBB's 1meg up and down service. Is it any 
> good in the Lucan area?

It's completely crap. I wish I'd never signed up for it. Don't do it. 
(This has NOTHING whatsoever to do with the fact that you'll be using 
the same antenna as I am and will be contending with me. Any 
suggestions that I might have ulterior motives for my comments are 
baseless)

> http://www.linux.ie/pipermail/ilug/2005-January/021795.html
> Is this what you are running now Niall? Any good?

But seriously folks . . . .

Yes, this is what I'm running now (in parallel with my DSL - I'm 
multi-homed, at least until my two months' notice to Netsource 
expires). It's fine - 2x as fast down, 8x as fast up, as my DSL, for 
half the price. Note that I still had Netsource's ATM based product, so 
I was paying over the odds, but I effectively had no contention 
whatsoever. With IBB, I have noticed contention hitting me now and 
then. Mind you, the 1M upload really came into its own recently when I 
had to send 3GB of data to a box in a colo. That was an overnight 
upload with IBB - if I still only had DSL, I would have to have driven 
to the colo with the data on my notebook, and transferred it via 
Ethernet.

So I guess I'm reasonably happy with IBB so far. I've signed up for a 
year, and I rather expect that in a year's time, with Smart having 
entered the DSL market, there may be numerous options.


Niall