RE: 4G as Home Broadband?
What are eircom looking and is their efibre service available at your address. I pay eircom €50 per month for efibre unlimited and have no complaints.
Re: RE: 4G as Home Broadband?
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Originally Posted by eddiem74
What are eircom looking and is their efibre service available at your address. I pay eircom €50 per month for efibre unlimited and have no complaints.
Same here.
I find eircom quite competitive these days
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RE: 4G as Home Broadband?
Assumed Eircom were still very pricey as a neighbour mentioned that it was pricey but reliable....so wrote them off based on previous price checks....more research needed.
RE: 4G as Home Broadband?
Eircom is 35 quid for the first 6 months and then 50 quid a month after; 18 month contract – Speeds of up to 100Mb and Unlimited download
30 quid a month for 6 months and 45 quid after on 18 month contract – 100Mb but limit of 30GB
Downloaded the Speed Test App for the phone and with 2 bar on the 4G signal, I got:
PING: 42ms
Download: 30 Mbps
Upload: 13 Mbps
Will have to do a few more checks during the day, but thats not too bad??
"3's" package is 35 quid for 4G speed with a limit of 60GB
Suppose Ive got to weigh up if its worth risking having poor signal and crap connection if I were to go with 4G verus the reliability of Eircom.
RE: 4G as Home Broadband?
Did another quick check....
PING: 39ms
Download: 37 Mbps
Upload: 11 Mbps
Could live with that...if the signal isnt going to drop in and out!
Is that the average 4G speed; somewhere in the 30 Mbps range? I know 3 say its supposed to be 10x faster than 3G which is around 7 Mbps??
RE: 4G as Home Broadband?
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Originally Posted by Curran
Did another quick check....
PING: 39ms
Download: 37 Mbps
Upload: 11 Mbps
Could live with that...if the signal isnt going to drop in and out!
Is that the average 4G speed; somewhere in the 30 Mbps range? I know 3 say its supposed to be 10x faster than 3G which is around 7 Mbps??
Also don't forget the speed they quote you is the total speed on the mast for all their customers using it so the speeds and latency will vary alot.
RE: 4G as Home Broadband?
So what speeds are the masts?
Say if 3 people are using it at 30 Mbps - does that mean the mast is 90Mbps? And if 30 people were to use it, Id only get 3 Mbps??
RE: 4G as Home Broadband?
I don't know what speed the masts have you would need to ask rebel.ranter as he works in that industry.
RE: 4G as Home Broadband?
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Originally Posted by Moses
I don't know what speed the masts have you would need to ask rebel.ranter as he works in that industry.
Any ideas @[rebel.ranter] ??
RE: 4G as Home Broadband?
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Originally Posted by Curran
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Originally Posted by Moses
I don't know what speed the masts have you would need to ask rebel.ranter as he works in that industry.
Any ideas @[rebel.ranter] ??
Where do I begin to answer that?
It all depends on the following:
- what the backhaul is from the site
- how many active customers on the site
- whether 3G (900 or 2100) or 4G is installed
I reckon just as with 3G in the past you'll see varying speeds. I've seen 90Mbps on 4G, I know the lads in Oz are getting over 100Mbps.
Don't forget that data usage is normally "bursty", which means that even though there might be multiple users on a site they may not be downloading at the same time so the speeds isn't necessarily divided by the number of users on a site, nor the number of active users.