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The Internet was dropping intermittently since the thunderstorm the other night. A Vodafone technician replaced the modem yesterday afternoon, but still no go. Then the service disappeared completely when the technician was still working on it. The issue was raised to a higher level and I spotted an Eir van this morning in Conroy Park, but couldn't see the technician, so I could have a chat and discover what the problem was. I suspect water in junction boxes or electronics fried by a surge due to a lightning strike. Unfortunately Eir won't give any information and Vodafone know nothing. Anyway service is back, but I would have liked to know the cause of the fault. Maybe everyone's on fibre now (which is insensitive to lightning spikes), so I was the only one affected, still using copper to the cabinet. The Vodafone Gigabit Broadband speed of 1,000 Mbps or 1Gbps is unnecessary for most people, despite their hype and marketing, and sales agents trying to push it. A 100 Mbps is service is perfectly adequate unless there are lots of people in a house doing loads of high-throughput, Internet activity. The other issue is when a premises is distant from a cabinet, which reduces the max bitrate sustainable.
I'm getting 96 Mbps now and sometimes the full 100 Mbps service.
You can check whether your ISP is giving you what you pay for using the website Fast.com or other similar sites.
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