Ironic Mary

emmemm

Found it ironic that the Minister for Agriculture announced broadband for several Donegal towns while most of rural Donegal relies on slooooooow dial-up.As usual Ireland is ten years behind the times with country dwellers even later.Nothing changes.

smashey

The plan was for towns with a population of over 1500 to get broadband. At least they are sticking to this. As for rural areas, all we can do is keep hassling them.

Paddy20

smashey wrote:

The plan was for towns with a population of over 1500 to get broadband. At least they are sticking to this. As for rural areas, all we can do is keep hassling them.

Can I suggest that this forum, Click here:- http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&daysprune=7&f=60

Is where this issue will receive the attention it deserves from the most highly respected campaigning group in Ireland .

P.:cool:

byte

emmemm wrote:

Found it ironic that the Minister for Agriculture announced broadband for several Donegal towns while most of rural Donegal relies on slooooooow dial-up.As usual Ireland is ten years behind the times with country dwellers even later.Nothing changes.

Any chance of a link to this news article? I'd be interested to know what towns are on the shortlist.

smashey

Byte,

It was in the local papers last week.

Buncrana, Carndonagh, Ballybofey/Stranorlar, Donegal Town, Ballyshannon and Bundoran.

muffler

byte wrote:

Any chance of a link to this news article? I'd be interested to know what towns are on the shortlist.

I think most of the details together with the usual "pat on the back" can be found here

byte

Thanks for that. I've been away to Scotland for a while so missed most of the local news!

bettlebrox

emmemm wrote:

while most of rural Donegal relies on slooooooow dial-up.As usual Ireland is ten years behind the times with country dwellers even later.

What is generally available as Broadband in Ireland is DSL (Digital Subscriber Line), which is a technology to spilt the copper wire used for Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS). The type of DSL that is widely used around the world, or at least in North America & Europe, has a limit of approx 10,000 feet that you have to be from the nearest Telephone Exchange for DSL to work properly.

See here for more info on distance:
http://www.dslreports.com/faq/4676

Basically, if you don't live near a telephone exchange the technology just won't work. So it's not just a matter of political will, it's a matter of what technology is used. But, this technolgy works well in more densely population countries like the Benelux countries or Korea or Japan (because nearly everyone is close to a telephone exchange).

In theory the Mobile Phone companies could offer broadband like speed over their network at a reasonable cost (if they weren't such price gougers). Plus, there are alternatives in the sidewings, such as broadband over electricity wires, over the water mains, and WiMax which is a wireless offering that is supposed to have a vast range.

Plus, give the Politicans a break, seriously do you seriously think most of them actually know anything about technology or any of the issues they have to deal with?

Muffler: The link you posted no longer works?

emmemm

give politicians a break YMBJ.we always need someone to blame when things go wrong.:)
when "broadband for the hills " was announced you can be sure the usual suspects were taking all the plaudits.
years later this scheme is conspicuous by it's silence.:mad:

jimmycrackcorm

If there was enough people clamouring for it then there would be broadband. A study by BT a few years ago showed that after much yelping at them to provide BB in small villages, when they implemented their trigger program a village of 1500 people only had 3 people entering their details.

The problemis that BB has not yet reached an equilibrium of necessity. At some point there will be a level of services available that will make BB as necessary as a phone is but that is just there yet.

I'm sure it will come, Sites like ryanair and online banking as some of the building blocks but we still can't order pizza online can we?.

muffler

bettlebrox wrote:

Muffler: The link you posted no longer works?

Typical of Donegal County Council :rolleyes:

This link is now working again

This has also been added to the Councils website