Installation/uninstallated equipment for Satellite/Wireless

Jokah

Is there a lot of equipment needed when you install wireless or satellite DSL. For instance if I want to go with Leap, do they attach a Satellite to the chimney or an antenna? Is there drilling involved?

Anyone have experience with installations? Did it go smoothly or badly. Was it messy or clean.

If you had the company come and uninstall the equipment how did it go? Did it go well? This would be a real help.

Im willing to pay the money for these options if my line fails the dsl test.

Thanks.

And please any moderators can delete the old posts I put up thanks.

Serbian

Hey,

I got Irish Broadband. The install itself took a good while, maybe 2 hours or so, and about 8 people arrived at my house to do it . However, there was little mess, and they gave my room a good clean before they left. They did have to drill a hole in the wall to get the cable from the antenna to the radio.

Overall, it was a tidy install, but I do think it could have been finished a whole lot quicker. They didn't even have to use a ladder in my house since there is a flat roof out the back of my house that they could stand on while the fixed the antenna in place. The only reason I'm complaining about time taken was that I had to take time off work to be there to let them in .

Serb

Jokah

What kind of LOS is needed. Do you physically need to see the Three Rock tower, RTE Tower etc from the roof of your house or does it go to a Satellite in Space?

Thanks for that advice.

Serbian

Well, Irish Broadband transmit off masts around Dublin so there is no Satellite involved in their setup. You do need to be able to see the mast from your roof hence the term Line of Sight.

I installed a satellite connection for someone after they had purchased it. They said that they needed to be able to see the sun in the east at 11am to be able to get the broadband offering as that is roughly where the satellite is.

The main difference between the two is Latency (or how long it takes to respond). It takes around 400ms (or 0.4 of one second) to transmit a packet via satellite, but can be as low as 10ms (or 0.01 of one second) via setups like Irish Broadband. Throughput (i.e. actual bandwith) Is not affected by latency, meaning you can download at the same speed with both products, it just takes a bit longer for the satellite connection to respond.

So why does latency matter?
Well, if you are into online gaming, it's just not possible with Satellite as you don't see stuff in real time, there is a 400ms lag after each command. Any other 'real time' application would be affected if you had satellite. If all you want is to download big files and browse the web whenever you want, then there is no great difference. Satellite offerings nearly always have exorbatant installation costs though (can be into 4 digit sums of money).

Hope that clears a few things up for you.

Jokah

"Well, Irish Broadband transmit off masts around Dublin so there is no Satellite involved in their setup. You do need to be able to see the mast from your roof hence the term Line of Sight. "

So what then you need just some kind of pole attached to your chimney or something to pick up the wireless signal?

"They did have to drill a hole in the wall to get the cable from the antenna to the radio."

Sorry what do you mean by this radio dude? I can understand the cabling thing.

Does it create a wireless environment in your house or does something have to be attached to your laptop/pc?

Sorry for all the questions its just I want to get this right for the landlord.

Oh yeah and Leap and IBB are wireless I take it. Is there anything attached to your walls?

Silent Assasin

I have irishbroadband aswell, Basically You have a satellite dish installed on the chimmney or roof, Its like the Sky Digital dish except it is a mesh background instead of a solid one...

A Cable comes out of that and then they drill that into your house and that goes into a box with a power supply. The Box is about the size of a Cigarette Box, thats the ethernet radio.

A RJ45 cable comes out of that and into your PC

Installation took about an hour and a half and Ive had no probs or outages since..

You will have to be able to see their transmitter to get it though but its grand and not too intrusive

Hope This Helps.

Jokah

Guys is it the mast of the Three Rock mountain, the one at the very top of the moutain that looks over the whole of dublin or the mast disguised as a tree in Marlay Park.

And LOS, I mean do u actually have to see the Mast? Like really see it or is there any leeway?

Thanks for your help, the installation guide was particularly helpful. Lets hope my land lord will allow it!