Ireland
TREX TV in Ireland
What TREX TV needs from an Irish broadband connection, the devices that make sense here, and how to test it before you commit.
What you need in Ireland
Nothing local, in fact. TREX TV is delivered over your ordinary broadband, so there is no dish, no regional box and no installer. What matters is your connection and your device, and both are things you can test for free before paying.
- Check your connection can carry it
A 4K stream wants roughly 15–25 Mbps sustained, per stream. Most Irish fibre and cable packages clear that comfortably; older copper connections may not at peak time. Full bandwidth figures.
- Take the free trial on the device you will actually use
24 hours, no card. Test on the living-room TV, in the evening — not on your phone at lunchtime.
- Set it up
Guides for every device are in the setup section. Firestick and Android TV are the two most common routes here.
- Pick a plan
One to four simultaneous connections, one month to a year, priced in US dollars — see plans and pricing.
Connections in Ireland
| Connection type | Typical evening reality | Comfortable for |
|---|---|---|
| Fibre to the home | Consistent all evening | Several 4K streams at once |
| Fibre to the cabinet | Usually fine; depends on copper distance | One 4K or two HD streams |
| Cable | Fast, shared locally | One 4K stream |
| Rural fixed wireless | Variable and often congested at peak | HD; test carefully |
| ADSL | Below the 4K threshold | SD and HD only |
Whatever your provider, the last few metres matter more than the headline speed. If the streaming device can reach the router with a cable, use one — it removes the single largest cause of buffering reports. If it cannot, the buffering fix starts with the settings that help most.
Two things Irish viewers ask about
Rural connections. Outside the main towns, fixed wireless is common and its evening behaviour is very different from its midday behaviour. The free trial exists exactly for this — test at 8pm on the TV you intend to use.
Wi-Fi through thick walls. A lot of Irish housing stock has solid internal walls that punish 5 GHz Wi-Fi. If the router is two rooms away, a cable or a powerline adapter will do more for stream stability than any change on our side.
Billing and currency
Prices are shown and charged in US dollars. Your bank converts at its own rate and may add a foreign-transaction fee — that fee is your bank’s, not ours. Nothing renews automatically: a plan runs for the term you bought and then stops until you renew.
On content and rights. TREX TV supplies the player app and the subscription line. We make no claim to hold distribution rights for any Irish broadcaster, competition or studio, and we do not use their names as marketing. If a specific channel matters to you, ask before you buy and you will get a straight answer.
Questions from Ireland
Do I need a TV licence in Ireland?
Irish law requires a television licence for any premises with a television set capable of receiving a broadcast signal, independently of what you watch on it. TREX TV does not change that, and we are not in a position to advise on it — check the official guidance.
Will it work on Eir, Vodafone or Virgin Media?
Yes. It is ordinary internet traffic on any provider.
Are prices in euro?
No — prices are in US dollars, and your bank converts. See pricing.