I have Eircom Broadband for around four years and had an ISDN line before that.
I switched to a Home Professional package and then when I was no longer working from home I went on Broadband Home Advanced package with talk-time.
This is download speed of up to 7MB and a download allowance of 50GB. Now the broadband was never the fastest but I put it down to the difference between home and work.
Last week I got an email saying we were upgraded to NGB. I don't recall agreeing to an upgrade but may have enquired so I presume there is no price change.
Today I decided to test the speed as it is slow and I thought the NGB would have been better however it came out as 3.51 MB.
I called about it only to be told that my line was only capable of 5MB! Then after further lengthy conversations discovered that Eircom get to set how much speed they send to your modem and they were sending 4MB to my modem. They did not tell me what they were sending to the modem pre NGB.
My issue is that I was never told this. Today is the first time I was told my line was not capable of the speed. I am careful enough about what I pay for and I would always weigh up the options. I was shown a package of 3MB or 7MB. I know they say up to but if they had told me I would never possibly be able to achieve a speed of 7MB on my line and that they were only going to send 4MB to my modem max anyway then I would probably have made the decision to go for the 3MB package.
I feel that I have been paying for a service for four years that they were never going to provide.
Am I missing something or have been hoodwinked here ?
Thanks AMC.
I switched to a Home Professional package and then when I was no longer working from home I went on Broadband Home Advanced package with talk-time.
This is download speed of up to 7MB and a download allowance of 50GB. Now the broadband was never the fastest but I put it down to the difference between home and work.
Last week I got an email saying we were upgraded to NGB. I don't recall agreeing to an upgrade but may have enquired so I presume there is no price change.
Today I decided to test the speed as it is slow and I thought the NGB would have been better however it came out as 3.51 MB.
I called about it only to be told that my line was only capable of 5MB! Then after further lengthy conversations discovered that Eircom get to set how much speed they send to your modem and they were sending 4MB to my modem. They did not tell me what they were sending to the modem pre NGB.
My issue is that I was never told this. Today is the first time I was told my line was not capable of the speed. I am careful enough about what I pay for and I would always weigh up the options. I was shown a package of 3MB or 7MB. I know they say up to but if they had told me I would never possibly be able to achieve a speed of 7MB on my line and that they were only going to send 4MB to my modem max anyway then I would probably have made the decision to go for the 3MB package.
I feel that I have been paying for a service for four years that they were never going to provide.
Am I missing something or have been hoodwinked here ?
Thanks AMC.