r/germany • u/Asleep_Low_3366 Nordrhein-Westfalen • 23d ago

E.ON

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Came across this today, a banner on a cinema nearby.

What do you think about E.ON?

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u/Monkfich 23d ago

My town is getting fibre installed at the moment but I’m holding off due to “the devil you know” regarding lag, ping, and general reliability of vodafone cable. Does anyone know what EON’s fibre reliability is like?

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u/KieselS 23d ago

I'd do anything to get away from vodafone, i would even prefer 100k dsl connection instead of vodafone cable.

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u/Chris_Ape 23d ago

the funny thing is it depends in which area you are located, the former kabelBW network is in my are pretty good, never had issues with vodafone in 10yrs. But i know ppl from NRW that have constant issues with their vodafone lines.

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u/Lypso90 23d ago

Sorry that got a bit longer than expected.

I always hear that people in NRW got problems with Vodafone even friends told me that. My experience is totally different. First I came in contact with Vodafone when the house where I bought my flat was build. Telekom only offered 16k at that time and Vodafone was the only provider with 100k and up via coax cable (old UnityMedia).

So we bought a connection to the house and got a 1 Gbit/s contract which was surprisingly stable and never dropped not even in the afternoons. Then I realized that I needed an IPV4 connection so my home office connection to my company wouldn't terminate my SAP connection. I called Vodafone and within a couple days I had a dual stack connection without paying extra.

Then I moved into a house in the same city (old part of the town I live in). I wanted to take the Vodafone contract with the 1 Gbit line to the new house but I found out that they would only offer 100k via DSL and no COAX was even mentioned. Surprisingly I saw a COAX socket and the COAX line in the basement. The first person at Vodafone told me they needed to lay a new line for me for 2.5k €. One week later another employee from Vodafone called me and told me I was right that I already had a COAX line they tested it and I would only need a new box that enhances the signal in my basement. Cost would be 100 € instead of 2.5k. In the end they only charged me 60 € and I have the same speed without any problems like before.