Irish Government Abolishes Broadband in Case its an election issue

Sponge Bob

Any poor fool who believes that Noel Dempseys broadband site is about them getting a non VSAT service better think again.

Noel is really annoyed with all the line failures that TDs keep annoying him about so Noel has made sure that his site , http://broadband.gov.ie/ , will not be an election issue.

From now on his DSL line checker will fail EVERY SINGLE LINE in Ireland , thats 100% , until AFTER the election.

Try it yourself here

http://www.broadband.gov.ie/Phoneline+Checker/

If the stupid piece of crap passes anybody then its a bug . Please Inform minister@dcmnr.ie and info@noeldempsey.ie and
press@fiannafail.ie and that line will be back failing in jig time.

Nothing short of 100% failure 100% of the time will be tolerated by our minister for dialup . Mind you its only last summer he was selling eircom broadband (only ) off that bloody site if you remember this thread

Redisle

Wow.. just wow

Sponge Bob

Nothing short of complete failure will suffice ...and after May its someone elses problem and Dempsey will not be blamed for anything any more.

In the meantime eople should get back to important things like hedge trimming in Ballivor and cattle loose in Athboy . Noels yer only man for those issues.

National issues are for shinners and blueshirts.

jhegarty

Got it to fail for me...


DSL Check results
Failed!

johnl

I fail too, apparently the 6 years of broadband or so I had were actually impossible.

There's nothing better than two parties divided only by their allegiance in a petty civil war more than 85 years ago.

I wonder if the minister responsible actually knows what broadband entails.

God, this country needs some technocrats.
(What a thing to say...)

exiztone

Completely agree. How is this not an election issue? Surely they can say that about anything and everything... "We're closing the Port Tunnel, it's not allowed to be an election issue"

thefinalstage

What kind fupping snit is this!

This is the single most idiotic thing I have heard! This is pure information censorship! Information that is need by the public...

Fenster

What fcuking bullsiht, for sure.

thebman

How do you know its to stop it being an election issue and not just that they made a change that accidently broke the website?

godskitchen

Does every line failing not make it more of an election issue?

thebman

I'd hope so

I still get the full list of providers if I use the map (my line has always failed).

Cabaal

Failing for every number I try, this is some joke

Gurgle

You don't think maybe its down while they update the database for enabled exchanges?

Or something?

Of course its much more fun to blame politicians.

btw - I caught Noel Dempsey outside my house last night spraying frost on my car.
Its an evil conspiracy to make winter last until after the election!

JNive

by every line failing, nobody can check to see how many lines are passing and how many are failing, since they all fail, and this is obviosuly a technical error, so basically the site cannot be used to check on the actual pass-rate

Gurgle

Eircom's line checker is working perfectly well.

Beelzebub

Inform the press.

MarkR

FFS. I would bet money that that site was the one being referenced by digiweb who said (after 2 years of hassle free bb) that my line was no longer suitable. Luckily UTV were happy to take my money.

MarkR

Just checked Noel Dempsey's telephone numbers on the site (freely available from his own website here) and they are failing too.

Trim Number 046 9431146 - Fail
Navan Number 046 9076989 - Fail

If he can't broadband we're all screwed.

watty

MarkR wrote:

FFS. I would bet money that that site was the one being referenced by digiweb who said (after 2 years of hassle free bb) that my line was no longer suitable. Luckily UTV were happy to take my money.

Everyone works from the same eircom supplied information

ST

Have Smart BB for a year now and both my new Smart number, my old Eircom number fail!!!

When I run the providor Check for my Area, Smart aren't even listed!!!

Neither were NTL which a friend has.

MarkR

watty wrote:

Everyone works from the same eircom supplied information

If that is the case then I can't understand why that site has no one passing, while the eircom site says that number is a pass? (046 9431146)

rahtkennades

Sponge Bob wrote:

Nothing short of complete failure will suffice ...and after May its someone elses problem and Dempsey will not be blamed for anything any more.

In the meantime eople should get back to important things like hedge trimming in Ballivor and cattle loose in Athboy . Noels yer only man for those issues.

National issues are for shinners and blueshirts.

SpongeBob, last time I checked, uncle Noel hadn't been seen at a clinic in Ballivor for many months, so there's not even any point in asking him about hedge trimming!

watty

MarkR wrote:

If that is the case then I can't understand why that site has no one passing, while the eircom site says that number is a pass? (046 9431146)

Obviously and logically eircom have direct access to their own information.

damien

Wasn't this line checker built by an ISP and given to DCMNR for free? There are no staff members in DCMNR looking after the broadband website anymore. They all left.

Sponge Bob

damien.m wrote:

Wasn't this line checker built by an ISP and given to DCMNR for free? There are no staff members in DCMNR looking after the broadband website anymore. They all left.

that would explain everything , when is Noel getting more Broadband staff ??

byte

Sponge Bob wrote:

that would explain everything , when is Noel getting more Broadband staff ??

After the election

Sponge Bob

Genius, my opinion of Noel has risen from gutter to almost kerb height :eek:

damien

Sponge Bob wrote:

when is Noel getting more Broadband staff ??

He's not. 4 have left in the past 12 months. If he wants replacements the new hires have to move to Cavan.