[quote=“Rocko, post: 911970, member: 1”]I think you opt out rather than not show up but it’s not your broadband they use - it’s UPC’s bandwidth that is supplied via your box.
So once your device is connected to your own Horizon box then you can connect to what are effectively wifi hotspots around the country. The owners of the various Horizon boxes will be entirely unaware that you’re connected and you won’t be using their bandwidth.[/quote]
Well I’d be of the opinion that only so much data can flow through the cable into my house. So if somebody else is using it, then there is less available for me.
Same question. If I don’t sign up, can other UPC customers still use my broadband?
[quote=“habanerocat, post: 912115, member: 1513”]Well I’d be of the opinion that only so much data can flow through the cable into my house. So if somebody else is using it, then there is less available for me.
Same question. If I don’t sign up, can other UPC customers still use my broadband?[/quote]
The cable can handle more data than is allocated to you as a customer. Nobody can use your broadband. If you opt out of the service then nobody can use your infrastructure either.
Lads Sky are wrecking my head saying I have to get an eircom engineer out to reopen the landline to get broadband. The eircom cunt will only come between 9-5 Monday to Friday and will only give me a 5 hour window of when he might turn up. I know this isn’t sky’s fault but fuck them too.
Anyway, anyone use one of the wireless routers you can hook up a few devices to?
Vodafone have one that seems reasonable with a 10gb cap. Is that too low? @TreatyStones I’ve no idea how much data I use, but I wouldn’t download a lot. Though I do internet a lot.
No sure what you mean here mate? Most routers that you’ll get from the broadband suppliers will allow you to hook up various devices. Can you be more specific?
Do you need Sky? If I had a choice I’d use UPC/Virgin - I had to move from them when we moved to Donegal as they weren’t available. Got Sky TV in and ordered Sky Broadband but they were taking forever to install and lost order details etc so in the end I just went with eircom and they had it up and running withing a week or so.
I have one of those Meteor dongles that I use a few times a week now but did use as permanent broadband when I lived somewhere with no landline a few years back. Its probably as fast as tethering through your phone and can sometimes be as cheap to just buy a big data bundle on your phone and tether through it.
Yeah, they can be ok. Contention is the big issue I found. On a friday evening when I wanted do download stuff my rate would drop from 5MB down to 0.5 or something. This all depends on the amount of people who are working off that particular mast and may be higher in some areas than others.
