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The National Digital Strategy - God help us.

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    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    The National Digital Strategy is to "let the market" develop everything and the Government to softly mutter encouragement occasionally.


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    bealtine
    Registered Users Posts: 4,051 ✭✭✭bealtine


    clohamon wrote: »
    National Digital Strategy
    http://www.dcenr.gov.ie/NR/rdonlyres/54AF1E6E-1A0D-413F-8CEB-2442C03E09BD/0/NationalDigitalStrategyforIreland.pdf

    Lots of identifying, exploring, enhancing, engaging, encouraging etc.

    The word "digital" now means absolutely anything.

    Not a word about doing anything just a load of nice sounding platitudes


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    Nolars
    Registered Users Posts: 2,892 ✭✭✭Nolars


    Must have a quick look over this later. Will be interesting to see when they come back with the report on the coverage of broadband in Ireland and what they plan to do... So we can all have a good laugh..


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    Nolars
    Registered Users Posts: 2,892 ✭✭✭Nolars


    http://www.siliconrepublic.com/digital-21/item/33414-irish-govt-reveals-national/ Lovely video aswell if anyone wants to watch.


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    jmcc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,297 ✭✭✭jmcc


    See they have the same bolloxology and astrology about the numbers and percentages of Irish businesses online. The "technology" churnalists love that bit of numerology but they are too damned thick to realise that it is flawed.

    Regards...jmcc


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    sibergoth
    Registered Users Posts: 478 ✭✭sibergoth


    this is a whole heap of ****e... why are they so worried about people who don't know what a computer is ? How about servicing the people who do know and rely on them for their work / life...

    I'm a techie, working from home, absolutely need decent internet day to day or I face a 100 mile round trip commute to work... I just can't afford that anymore.

    I live in Kilmihil, Co. Clare.
    I have another thread on here regarding our lack of ADSL upgrade..

    http://www.boards.ie/ttfthread/2056243287/5

    I'd bet now that we'll get LTE before we get the eircom exchange upgraded to even NGB and Fibre is a million years away...

    extremely annoying...


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    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    LTE is unlikely on average to be better than your DSL and is likely to drop out much more often as they get more subscribers.

    Also to make a profit LTE needs to be at least x3 more expensive than current 3G packages.


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    ItHurtsWhenIP
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    sibergoth wrote: »
    this is a whole heap of ****e... why are they so worried about people who don't know what a computer is ? How about servicing the people who do know and rely on them for their work / life...

    I'm a techie, working from home, absolutely need decent internet day to day or I face a 100 mile round trip commute to work... I just can't afford that anymore.

    I live in Kilmihil, Co. Clare.
    I have another thread on here regarding our lack of ADSL upgrade..

    http://www.boards.ie/ttfthread/2056243287/5

    I'd bet now that we'll get LTE before we get the eircom exchange upgraded to even NGB and Fibre is a million years away...

    extremely annoying...

    Hi Sibergoth - I had a read of your full thread on the Eircon forum above. I can understand your frustration, but you're lucky you have 2.55Mbps. I'm living outside the small village of Rearcross, Co. Tipp and our exchange currently has SFA.

    Luckily about 3 years ago some of the villagers got onto a local FWA provider (Munster Broadband) and they got them to put a sector on their mast that serves Doon, Co. Limerick to point to a repeater on the hill overlooking our village.

    I am on the 3Mbps down/1Mbps up, unlimited data tariff and get those speeds pretty consistently. So this lets me work from home adequately (though I don't do the VoIP or Video Chat type thing, as I end up sounding like Type 1 Cylon). :eek:
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    Take a look at this post and go to the first link there. If you put the marker onto Kilmihil and then tick Wireless ISPs, it will show you a few WISPs (overlapped) that provide coverage to your area.

    Selecting the individual WISPs shows that Permanet and Ripplecom both have some coverage in your area.

    Both providers have Coverage maps on their sites which are more granular than the IOFFL map, so you may be able to see if they get to your house. They may even offer better speeds than Vodafone or 3.

    I've been totally happy on FWA - though I occasionally get to use a UPC 50Mbps pipe in Dublin and can only drool at the speed. :rolleyes:

    Good luck with your quest for greater speed!


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    sibergoth
    Registered Users Posts: 478 ✭✭sibergoth


    thanks for that...

    I tried ripplecon, didn't work out. I gave them my exact location and they told me there was no coverage here.. I'm 1 mile outside the village.

    I hadn't heard about Permanet. worth a try I guess, but I don't like the 40GB limit :(

    *sigh* !


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    CelticTigress
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭CelticTigress


    Pleased to hear that my exchange is not the only one still waiting for ADSL. I moved here in 2002. When are we getting broadband I asked Eircom eagerly. "Next spring". 11 springs later, no hope in sight.

    We now have a Three mast which has been ok but lately the signal has been very patchy. Lots of complaints all over the Three forum about it.


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    clohamon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,764 ✭✭✭clohamon


    CelticTigress wrote: »
    Pleased to hear that my exchange is not the only one still waiting for ADSL. I moved here in 2002. When are we getting broadband I asked Eircom eagerly. "Next spring". 11 springs later, no hope in sight.

    We now have a Three mast which has been ok but lately the signal has been very patchy. Lots of complaints all over the Three forum about it.

    Have you any information on North West Electronics coverage up there. Has it improved over recent years? Did you ever try them?


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    CelticTigress
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭CelticTigress


    clohamon wrote: »
    Have you any information on North West Electronics coverage up there. Has it improved over recent years? Did you ever try them?

    Hi Clohamon. They beefed up their mast and took on a rake of new customers. I had just signed up with 3 when that happened (amazing how a new mast half a mile away concentrates the mind of a provider) so I didn't try them. At the time I was happy with 3 and to be honest, it has been absolutely fine until the last 2 or 3 weeks. Now I think they've probably got a waiting list again. People seem to be happy enough with them.


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