Location of DigiWeb Antenna

ABC

Hello Folks,


Since I am on an Eircom 'takes 15 minutes to download 1Mb' line I will be
as brief as possible :mad:


Does anyone know the exact location of Digiweb Antenna in the Dundalk area. I live approx. three miles west of Dundalk. I signed up to their service
about one year ago but they could not get a signal. There are no
large hills between myself and Dunkalk.

Have they put up any more antenna in the last 12 months. Is there new
metro service similar range to what was on offer 12 monts ago.

I guess I need to contact DigiWeb

Cheers

Jim

crawler

ABC wrote:

Hello Folks,


Since I am on an Eircom 'takes 15 minutes to download 1Mb' line I will be
as brief as possible :mad:


Does anyone know the exact location of Digiweb Antenna in the Dundalk area. I live approx. three miles west of Dundalk. I signed up to their service
about one year ago but they could not get a signal. There are no
large hills between myself and Dunkalk.

Have they put up any more antenna in the last 12 months. Is there new
metro service similar range to what was on offer 12 monts ago.

I guess I need to contact DigiWeb

Cheers

Jim

they have - castletown Moate

ABC

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Have they put up any more antenna in the last 12 months. Is there new
metro service similar range to what was on offer 12 monts ago.

I guess I need to contact DigiWeb




they have - castletown Moate
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Hello again,


I phoned Digiweb but the service is only available to Dundalk town as far as the person on the end of the phone was concerned.


How far would you guess the 'Metro lite' service will travel if you have line of
sight?

Cheers.

Sponge Bob

Ring them up again, speak to a tech, and promise nice fat lattés and a tasty foccacia with beef tomato / prosciutto di parma and a heavy drizzle of olive oil all around if they bring the gear out with them to test their signal .

You are in the unique position of being 3 miles from ISP HQ and should leverage that .

Armies still march on thir stomachs.

ABC

Sponge Bob wrote:

Ring them up again, speak to a tech, and promise nice fat lattés and a tasty foccacia with beef tomato / prosciutto di parma and a heavy drizzle of olive oil all around if they bring the gear out with them to test their signal .


So, they'll be getting beans on toast and warm beer then...:D

You are in the unique position of being 3 miles from ISP HQ and should leverage that .

Armies still march on thir stomachs.

I had a technician out last year and he could get no signal from the roof.
I was hopeing that they may have put up more antenna or increased
power since then, with the new offerings of late.

I can install up on a hill about 300 yards from my house which would
guarantee me line of sight to the antenna but how do
I then transmit the received signals to my house.
Would the IR on two PC's transmit 300 yds through a fiber optic ?


Any ideas or pointers greatly appreciated

Cheers

watty

You could use a pair of Dlink DWL-810+ Wireless Bridges (or similar, anything that claims to use WiFi for ANY ethernet device such as PS2 or original XBOX). They will do about 100m with supplied aerial, so you need to change the aerial. With a reverse SMA to N-Connector tail and a small size MMDS type dish you will get up to 2km or 3km.

Do enable 128bit encyption though!

uncle_sam_ie

Or, you could drag the house up the hill!

Sponge Bob

the problem is getting power 300m away and if you have power up there already sure you may as well sell Digiweb a new location for their equipment , especially if it is a decent height hill

if you have power up there go with wattys idea to use 2 x €80 wifi boxes to 'bridge' the 300m gap.

crawler

No wait _ I have an idea...

Wireless electricity! Has to be a winner

damien

crawler wrote:

Wireless electricity! Has to be a winner

Currently being tested in the U.S.

Blaster99

Nikola Tesla was the inventor of wireless electricity in the 19th century, by the way.

watty

I think if disasters are on in Sim City the Wireless Electricity wipes out bits of the City. (Power stations by in orbit Microwave power downlinks. Any bird flying into the downlink is instant pie filling.)

JimmySmith

I'd love to see a map of all of digiwebs Dublin coverage and their sites that they are supposedly errecting their new masts at?
I remember that someone from digiweb promised to post that up here months ago but it never happened.

Sponge Bob

Even IBB have coverage maps nowadays

watty

But then Eircom would know where to upgrade the exchanges

I'd guess there will be coverage maps as soon as the areas are mostly added.

cgarvey

relying on empty pockets (i.e. non DSL-enabled areas) is not sustainable, even in this country.. so publish and be damned