The house is finally moved to a new ISP, after being with Eircom since their first residential ADSL offering back in about April 2003, if I’m remembering the year correctly.
We started on a 512/128 ADSL connection. That was crazy fast for the time, having been on 56k dialup until then. This was seeing about 48kbps go up to 512kbps on my downloads and it was nuts. Eventually we got upgraded to 3Mb/385kb. Eircom said we were going up to 7.6Mb/768kb but it didn’t happen until I called them three times. The first two times I called, their internal account management server was down and they couldn’t update my information to get me upgraded.
After finding out that we could be paying less every month for a better service, and that changing would have negligible downtime (a couple of hours), I called Magnet and started the move. (more…)
