topic Re: Fibre Broadband to the home. in Broadband

Fibre Broadband to the home.

Murty1978 — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 13:26:40 GMT

Hi, fibre has just arrived in my area. I'm going to be able o receive minimum speeds of 500mbps.

I'm tempted as a sky customer to add broadband to my package, but Eir sales ( my current broadband provider) has said that Eir Fibre Broadband will be faster than Sky Broadband!

I was under the impression that speeds from all suppliers would be the same across the board under the NBI network??

Looking for advice please?

Re: Fibre Broadband to the home.

jamesn123 — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 13:41:55 GMT

@Murty1978

The speeds should be the same, not sure what actual reason EIR could give that would make their speed faster than Sky.

Re: Fibre Broadband to the home.

TimmyBGood — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 14:40:57 GMT

@Murty1978

If regulation in the Republic is the same as the UK (and I suspect it's very similar) then EIR as an ISP has exactly the same access to the wholesale bandwidth market as Sky.

ISPs can choose to supply broadband with, for example, a lower contention ratio, but they generally don't on domestic broadband because it would make their customer-facing prices uncompetitive.

Re: Fibre Broadband to the home.

sonicares — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 08:31:52 GMT

Have you tried the availibility checker?

https://www.sky.com/broadband/buy?irct=fttp-hero-prospect

That should tell you what they can offer.