Broadband Shambles
February 18th, 2008
Given that I’m planning on moving down the county from Dublin next year broadband services become very important. The whole broadband situation outside of the main urban centres is a mess and there’s no hope of the current government and minister Lying Eamon Ryan fixing it. Senator Shane Ross is putting forward a Broadband Infrastructure Bill which might help, if it were accepted and there seems to be moves to revive the Ireland-Offline lobby group to put some pressure on the people in charge.
Wireless broadband is available in a lot of places mostly thanks to Digiweb although you need to be in line of sight of a station and within a certain distance which can be a bit difficult in rural areas.
The satellite broadband is a laughable option, so laughable that I don’t think you can call it broadband, certainly not when it’s realisitcally only one way service, although at least there’s plenty of companies out there providing it and offering some relief to dial up sufferers.
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1. barry | February 19th, 2008 at 11:45 am
It is I who suggested recreating Ireland Offline for bb. I am trying to get a survey going on who is getting what from whom and, more important, who is not getting…..
Any assistance you can provide would be appreciated. The sort of mention you have made is grand, we need as many people as poss to answer the survey. We need to be credible, ComReg trots out supposed data done by a ‘reputed, independent’ agency for them……
We hope to use boards.ie as the vehicle, but we are not sure we can do a survey on there, do you know of somewhere where we can do an online survey?
2. larry | February 19th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Haven’t used them before but there are plenty of online tools for creating surveys, most of which probably require a small subscription for any major use. e.g. http://www.surveymonkey.com - which I had just had a play around with and seems pretty good.
Failing that their might be a web dev person out there in the interested people on boards.ie who has a bit of time to spare who could put one together for free.
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