Speeds up to 30 times faster than those currently available to Irish consumers.

zod

Intel part of €100m high-speed wireless network investment
Sunday, June 21, 2009 By Ian Kehoe and Adrian Weckler
Chip giant Intel is joining forces with an Irish broadband provider for a €100 million investment in a high-speed wireless network to shake up the Irish broadband market.

The new network, using a technology known as WiMax, is backed by five multinationals and Irish companies, and will go live in the coming months. It is being spearheaded by the Imagine Group, headed by entrepreneur Sean Bolger. The consortium says the network will be able to deliver speeds up to 30 times faster than those currently available to Irish consumers.

The €100 million fund will be used to part-finance a nationwide network of telecoms infrastructure. Construction has begun on the network in Dublin and Kildare, and the service is being tested.

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watty

This is nonsense and was also promised in 2004.

Of course Ripwave working badly, if upgraded x 30 = about 1.5Mbps

Unless they use fixed outdoor aerials it won't deliver more than x2 to x4 faster for existing Ripwave customers.

If you look at Imagine's IBB FWALA licences on www.comreg.ie you will see it's various places all over Ireland, not nationwide.

If this uses indoor units it will be poorer than Breeze. Any Breeze upgrade (outdoor aerials) will only just match or be less than Digiweb Metro. Imagine hasn't got enough spectrum to do x4 on Breeze, never mind x30. You can't break the laws of physics.

Lots of Wireless Operators are alreading using Fixed WiMax in Ireland.

vibe666

watty wrote: »

You canny break the laws of physics capt'n!

fixed it for you.

sorry, but it's got to be a joke hasn't it?

30 times faster? faster than what, GPRS?

EDIT: seems i've been reading the wrong articles.

gizmodo has a field test of uncapped wimax here: http://gizmodo.com/5174718/exclusive-wimax-uncapped-speed-tests

if they can do the same thing here, that would really be something.

but, yu'd have to wonder if they're really got the chops to do it justice or not.

Onikage

vibe666 wrote: »

EDIT: seems i've been reading the wrong articles.

gizmodo has a field test of uncapped wimax here: http://gizmodo.com/5174718/exclusive-wimax-uncapped-speed-tests

if they can do the same thing here, that would really be something.

but, yu'd have to wonder if they're really got the chops to do it justice or not.

That looks like mobile Wimax with one user on a network by themselves. HSDPA would be pretty good if you had the entire network to yourself too

watty

Gizmodo has no proper testing Metrics and a new system with few customers is always good. Divide Gizmodo's speeds by 10 to 20 for a populated network

They have become a bunch of iPhone fanboys, also more junk and juvenile rubbish than ever before. It used to be better.

You can actually get BETTER than Gizmodo's so called "Uncapped Wimax test" ( a promo for Clearwire) on 3G/HSPA or WiMAx in Ireland, Today. If no-one else is using the mast and you have a perfect signal.

Indoor you lose up to 20dB if the window faces away from the mast. A double of outdoor distance with clear countryside in comparison is about 6dB loss.

Sponge Bob

zod wrote: »

Adrian Weckler

Not the first time he has wilfully peddled charlatans in the business post .

vibe666

ah well, we're back to being fooked again then.