5G speed between Eir/Vodafone/3, eir is suck a scam with it’s fake 5G

23 comments

1. Call you solicitor

2. Who’s network are you of. Are you an Eir customer because up may not get the full speeds if you aren’t. You can’t compare speeds unless you are swapping out sim cards

3. Pretty sure you need 2 sim cards both for the respective network to do a test like this that has any value.

4. You best isolate, you probably have covid now with all that 5G.

5. It improves once you have your booster shot.

6. The speeds you’re getting with all three of them are nowhere near what I would expect 5G to be. Are you close to a 5G tower?

   While it’s location dependent for sure, I average around 200 down and 40 up on 3’s LTE. I’m not even bothered about paying for 5G when I get LTE speeds like that.

7. Ring Eir customer service I hear they are excellent…………..(fart noises)

8. It’s most likely your phone. iPhones will often display 5G but fall back to 4G to save battery [as they say here. ](https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT211828) For what it’s worth, I used to have a company sim with Eir 5G that was super fast – several hundred megs down. One of the few things I miss about that job.

9. I need to get some 5G, I have Sky at home and I’m currently getting….3mb

10. Thats pretty cool I haven’t seen 5g yet can’t wait for it to come out everywhere, just a little tip about navigating your iPhone tho, you can just swipe left and right along the home bar to switch screens super quick

11. I just got 217 up and 39 down on 4G here in Limerick.

12. I’m with 3 and with full 5G signal the other day I got 1366 down and 100 up

13. Just done a speed test and I’m with eir and got an download of 353 and upload of 13

14. You mean I got the vaccine for nothing?

15. Cancelled my eir contract well over a year ago. They keep sending me bills. They’re both incompetent and dodgey AF

16. Not most accurate test.

    Your seeing which networks are available in your area. You might have a 5g plan with some networks which share lines but not others.

    Eirtowers might have more interference depending where u are.

    Eir is shit still tho

17. The important question is: why the bottom left animation is inverted? The direction looks swapped

18. Using 3 5G since the beginning and my internet speed is better than eir broadband.

    560 megabits per second

19. Your eir test was connecting to Vodafone

20. Roaming isn’t the same as being on your home network. For LTE, data flows like this: UE (handset) <-> SGW <-> PGW <-> Internet.

    Data between the UE and the PGW, is encapsulated inside a GTP packet. The PGW breaks out the data packet and forwards it to the internet. And the reverse for the return packet.

    When roaming, the typical setup is to use the visited network’s Serving GateWay and the home network’s Packet GateWay. The S5/8 link between these could be direct, through an exchange, etc, etc. This link could directly effect users traffic limits.

    Depending on roaming agreements, users could be assigned different QoS values.

    Another roaming setup (if your home network’s HSS allows and the visited network supports), is the visited network to breakout the data using its PGW. This would give much greater speed.

    In 5G, the SGW and PGW network elements were replaced by the SMF and UPF.

    Also, there’s two types of 5G deployments: 5G SA and 5G NSA.

    5G NSA is like a half-house between 4G and 5G, where the radio is 5G and most of the core network is a 4G EPC.

    5G SA is true 5G where the radio is 5G and the core network is a 5G Core.

21. I dunno pal, just got 270 on eir 5g. Seems legit to me.

22. Hahaha try getting 1-5mbps with WiFi in semi rural Leitrim.
    You might not be getting the speeds you want just yet, but think of the lest fortunate out here 😂

23. I was with 3 for the past year and was getting well over 300mbps on their 5G, decided to switch to Eir 5G because they had a better deal but it’s shit I’m only about 50-70mbps and I’m in the same area. I’ll see about switching back to 3.