Comments on: Eircom

By: jeff

jeff — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 21:18:24 +0000

i read and re-read about various providers in ireland. we had irish broadband for a year (hopeless) and three mobile broadband (good for a while then poor) and finally we settled on Eircom 8mb NGB for south county dublin area. Delighted with it. Just ran a check with speedtest.com and registered 6.9 mbps and thats for a saturday nite, usually high contention rate with the others. For once we have broadband that delivers high speed – and for 30 euro (10 months) too.

By: B

Sat, 07 Aug 2010 07:06:15 +0000

We joined Eircom over a month ago. After waiting for 3 weeks to receive the router, I set up my broadband quite easily. Since then however, I am flabbergasted at how slow, sluggish and unreliable the service is. I find myself rebooting the modem a few times a week to see if it will make any difference. As an Irish person who has lived abroad for years, I am abhored by the quality of service Eircom offers in the Dublin area. If I was living in a cottage in Connemara, I would expect this quality of dial up service. On the contrary, I signed up for their sleek, sexy, fast uploads/downloads service in the Dublin area…and it really feels like dial up internet in 1995.

Eircom – don’t waste your money or your time with them.

By: MartyG

MartyG — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:46:18 +0000

Eircom broadband is pure trash and belongs in the garbage.
This so called service can collapse or annoyingly be disrupted for hours on end.
When you ask why..The responce from Eircom is..’Its peak time, (over congestion)
I often wonder what the so called politicians are doing about this as the people constantly get ripped off paying for 3rd rate services that sometimes don’t even work at all..
Where is the refunds?
Who knows…
Best keep looking i guess.

By: Sinead

Sinead — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:38:58 +0000

Expensive rip off Eircom broadband. Rude staff and not very helpful at all.

By: Celine

Celine — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:26:07 +0000

One word for Eircom.net broadband that is : EXPENSIVE, EXPENSIVE ! no wonder they spend a huge amount of money on advertising to try and get more people to join us with them. Why do Irish people put up with such bad service. Having lived here for five years. Ireland this the third world of ISP service. My friends abroad can’t believe how bad broadband service is here.
Not going to even rate it.

By: Chris Connolly

Chris Connolly — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:52:16 +0000

Don’t really have a problem with them. Internet is generally good and reliable, out here in the wilds of Cavan. They never charged me for going over my ridiculously small download quota (30 or 40 gig), and I don’t even do any illegal downloading on that – well, I don’t do MUCH illegal downloading on that I guess would be nearer to the truth. I’ve shopped around, but moving to a different provider wouldn’t be worthwhile for me. All in all as a consumer it seems to be as good as it gets in this country.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:57:09 +0000

Just off the phone to a “customer service” agent – a contradiction in terms – about their failure to put me on the bundle that I had ordered. All my fault, apparently… I have to know their internal procedures and processes and second guess the cretins that operate them. And “no!.. there was nobody senior to speak to”… “Well there was but he wasn’t going to put me through ‘cos my problem wasn’t serious enough”… and “No! … the senior person did not have a name”. And really “it wasn’t his problem”. And the real kicker is that I “came back” to Eircom for this!!… I could have “enjoyed” such lousy service anywhere.

By: Paul Doyle

Paul Doyle — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:52:08 +0000

the reality of broadband in ireland is ‘ if you want what i call broadband ‘which is at least 7 mb ‘ you need to live in city or close to your exchange ‘i moved from dublin to fermoy in cork and its like being in the stone age its actually a crime how terrible it is im with eircom i cant even get 3 mb down here ‘ which is no use to me as i play ps3 online and need at least a steady 3 mb connection to play online ‘ at peak times with eircom i get a speed of 0.29 mb ‘ they should be all shot ‘ i had bt in dublin and up until vodafone took over they were the best provider in ireland fact . But Now eircom owns vodafones lines ‘ so my advice is put up with crappy isp’s or move out of this Gay country .

By: Conor J

Conor J — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:53:22 +0000

It’s brown, it’s hot and I’m about to make one = Eircom

By: Eddie

Eddie — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:43:08 +0000

wooow i cant top the comments here, i can only say there tellin the truth