Comments on: 3 Broadband

By: James

James — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:48:02 +0000

This service is not properly rolled out yet. It tries to find a 3 base station, when it can’t find one it latches onto an O2 one and then searches again in a few minutes dropping the connection. Speed varies between what you might expect from a 128k ISDN (but without the reliability of same) and an old 14.4k modem from the mid 90s. Deeply frustrating and they make it very difficult to get out of the contract.

By: Micheál Kenny

Micheál Kenny — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 23:17:48 +0000

All wireless internet is shit, but 3 are the least shit of them all… but still shit.

By: eilis

eilis — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:36:05 +0000

I signed up with 3 3 weeks ago, we where really happy with it, until I checked our usage 4 days ago. We had gone over our usage by 20 euro! So i was a little annoyed and talked to my house mate about it. We had both been watching shows online and had skype calls so we thought it was down to this and decided no to do that until next month that we would just be careful not to go over our usage again.
However my house mate wasn’t feeling well and decided to watch one episode of Glee from channel 4. (fair enough i though sure its only a few euro) ONE EPISODE COST US 50EURO!!!!!!!!!!!)
And she didnt even finish watching the whole thing. 50 EURO!!!!!
so we are 3 weeks into our contract and terminating it today, they can take us to court if they want there is no way that can be justified. pure robbery.
although to be fair it is fast and reliable but i live very close to dublin.

By: duped

duped — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:10:27 +0000

Wrote a long review but lost if when connection dropped .
Three crap ,has been for 2 years cancellin tomorrow.
DONT DARE SUBSCRIBE least you love HARDSHIP AND S**T

By: JesusKnowItAll

JesusKnowItAll — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:44:49 +0000

I used 3 Broadband when I was at college and it was ok in the city, got around 6Mbps max, but downloads were terrible but I really expected this.

Note to people intending to buy this kind of internet

IT IS NOT MEANT FOR DOWNLOADING/YOUTUBE/GAMING ETC. It’s meant for on the go internet, the companies are just pawning it off as home broadband when it really isnt. It’s meant for laptops, not home computers. (ok, maybe if you’re in the city, but then you’d have reg bb.

Anyway, it’s meant for normal browsing, and they gave me 3months free because the modem wasnt working for 3 months. So good on them, I’m still with them, my second year, since Im still a student all Im paying is a tenner a month on top of eircom 66 p/m 7mb. So 77p/m for 2 broadband services aint too shabby (thats with phone)

ANYWAY, yes, get them if you’re a student, and if you arent a student and live in the country or cant get reg bb, MOVE HOUSE BECAUSE IT’S NOT FOR YOU IF YOU WANT REGULAR BROADBAND.

By: Rhiannon

Rhiannon — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:21:34 +0000

AVOID 3 BROADBAND!!!
JUST SAY NO!
I live in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal. I got 3 broadband (pay monthly, €25) about a month ago. All I can say is, what a WASTE!

Its slower than dial up.
It often disconnects or just won’t do anything.
It wont even load games (facebook type stuff).
Downloading takes forever.

If it were faster and not awful in every way, it would be amazing. My phone is better than it. I was told by the guys in Currys that they have had several people in talking about how bad it is.
My friend got meteor (similar plan) and hers seems MUCH faster than mine. And it actually loads things. I’ve not heard good things about other mobile internet providers, but I think I’ll give one a go.
ANYTHING WOULD BE BETTER THAN 3!

By: Adey

Adey — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:56:09 +0000

I am living in Kilkishen Co Clare and cannot get eircom or any other broadband to work trust me have tried them all, I then got 3 wireless modem the one thats about the size of a phone stuck it to the side of the window and bingo I always get speeds of 2.6-4.7 mbps and can download an 800 mb movie in 45 mins, I cannot complain I think its really good and I can also use the wireless feature with my laptop or i phone or Xbox etc. 10 out 10

By: tom

tom — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:11:25 +0000

i have been in contract with 3mobile for the last eleven months only 30 days to go…there customer service agents dont understand that when you say you are cancelling your contract,,,,your telling them not asking can you leave please…the service is at best slower than dial up thats when it can stay connected for more than 3 minutes…waste your money on buying betamax tapes to play on your bluray player more chance of it working

By: Adrian

Adrian — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:18:40 +0000

After 1.5 years i canceled my 3 broadband and they are asking E13!! For WHAT ? Idiots … it was very slow, but i though it’s my only option. I went to O2 recently and I took student broadband for E10 and it’s much more better. Never ever with 3.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:49:53 +0000

I was told my area was covered under the NBS. I thought Great! So I went out and got Three’s mobile broadband package.

I’ve had it over a week now and will be bringing it straight back. It’s an absoulte joke! THe speeds are so slow and it just keeps dropping out every few minutes (the most annoying part of this is when it connects again it keeps opening up the Three website! arrrrghh).

I cannot believe that my area is covered under the NBS, if this is supposed to be the best service I can get. I’m currently on Vodafone broadband which is not great, but compared to Three it’s streets ahead.

The only good thing about Three is the 15GB download, but I think it would probably take 3 months of downloading to get to this limit with the current speeds.

AVOID THIS PACKAGE!!!