The satellite dish solved a real problem in its day. The question is whether it's still solving yours, or just still bolted to the wall. Here's the comparison Irish households actually need, item by item.
Hardware and installation
Satellite means a dish on the house, a box under the telly, an installer visit, and a landlord conversation if you rent. IPTV means an app on devices you already own. Order in the evening, watching the same night: our setup guide is about five minutes of work.
Contracts and flexibility
Traditional TV bundles are built on 12-to-24-month contracts with introductory rates that climb. IPTV done properly is month-to-month: with us there's no contract at all, prices are published in euro, and plans never renew on their own. Commitment becomes a choice you make for a discount, not a trap you signed in month one.
Cost, honestly
Compare your current bundle bill, after the introductory rate wore off, against €12 a month, or €4.92 a month on a yearly plan. Then remember the box rental and the extra-room charges the bundle adds. Check your own bill rather than taking our word; ours is hardly a neutral one. The full breakdown is in the cost guide.
Rooms and screens
Satellite multiplies hardware: another room means another box and often another fee. IPTV multiplies logins: your line works on every device you own, one screen at a time, and extra lines come with 20% off the whole total when the house genuinely watches two things at once.
Weather and moving house
A dish argues with Atlantic weather; broadband doesn't. And moving house with satellite means an engineer at the new place, while moving with IPTV means signing in at the new address. For renters especially, that difference is the whole decision.
Where satellite still wins
If your broadband is genuinely poor, below roughly 20 megabits per second at peak, the dish still earns its keep. That's the honest boundary. Everywhere above it, the comparison tilts one way.
Settle it with evidence
Don't cancel anything on our say-so. Take the 24-hour free trial, run both side by side at your peak hour, and let your own telly make the call.