Any info on Satellite Broadband please?

reboot

Sorry if covered before,but as broadband in this rural area seems impossible for a very long time,I have to look to satellite. A compass reading would be a start, as I believe some suppliers will allow self installation. Is it Hercules Sat?,and I have asked on other forums if people have experience of going this internet route. Thanks

STB.

reboot wrote: »

Sorry if covered before,but as broadband in this rural area seems impossible for a very long time,I have to look to satellite. A compass reading would be a start, as I believe some suppliers will allow self installation. Is it Hercules Sat?,and I have asked on other forums if people have experience of going this internet route. Thanks

Satellite broadband is fine but has latency issues as the data has to travel thousand of miles!

If you have applications that require constant data exchange back and forth, forget it. In that case a LOS Broadband service might be better.

reboot

STB. wrote: »

Satellite broadband is fine but has latency issues as the data has to travel thousand of miles!

If you have applications that require constant data exchange back and forth, forget it. In that case a LOS Broadband service might be better.

Thanks for your quick reply,tried to find Los broadband, but just found crazy internet stuff, do you have a link?

STB.

reboot wrote: »

Thanks for your quick reply,tried to find Los broadband, but just found crazy internet stuff, do you have a link?

Line of Sight Broadband. They use a small dish like receiver and are normally using Cogent etc.

You wont find a provider by using those terms.

Where are you ? The providers vary throughout the country as they have small catchments areas as the coverage only goes so far.

In Wicklow there is wicklowbroadband. In Wexford there is Carnsore etc

reboot

STB. wrote: »

Line of Sight Broadband. They use a small dish like receiver and are normally using Cogent etc.

You wont find a provider by using those terms.

Where are you ? The providers vary throughout the country as they have small catchments areas as the coverage only goes so far.

In Wicklow there is wicklowbroadband. In Wexford there is Carnsore etc

Am in the Mournes although not deep in them,just 3 mile outside Castlewellan,in the blackout north..
What you suggest is interesting as the local community have had meetings with DRD and a petition has been organised to look into available funds for rural areas.Is this a form of perhaps microwave transponder system? Thanks

STB.

reboot wrote: »

Am in the Mournes although not deep in them,just 3 mile outside Castlewellan,in the blackout north..
What you suggest is interesting as the local community have had meetings with DRD and a petition has been organised to look into available funds for rural areas.Is this a form of perhaps microwave transponder system? Thanks

I am not too familiar with Co Down. Your best bet might to ask in the Broadband forum.

The LOS systems that I have seen here in the very south of Ireland have a main Tx and repeaters/access points at various places. The ones I was referring to are commercial companies who offer this type broadband using Ubiquity gear. Mine for example is 15mb down no limits.

They quality varies in how they are run (i.e. too many/not too many customers on each access point etc).

The community aspect > there is a guy in Waterford who set up what I am talking about on a community basis. Have a look in the broadband thread.

obezyana

reboot wrote: »

Sorry if covered before,but as broadband in this rural area seems impossible for a very long time,I have to look to satellite. A compass reading would be a start, as I believe some suppliers will allow self installation. Is it Hercules Sat?,and I have asked on other forums if people have experience of going this internet route. Thanks

I know of some one who has Sat broadband in a rural area......broadband is poor and the dish is like something you would see on top of a tv broadcasting van....bloody massive.

reboot

obezyana wrote: »

I know of some one who has Sat broadband in a rural area......broadband is poor and the dish is like something you would see on top of a tv broadcasting van....bloody massive.

Quite, you see them outside garage forecourts,and shops. As pointed out they have to uplink, around 1Mbit,I read with download up to 5 Mbits. My local computer shop packed his in as he was getting up to 2 Mbit, not good for all that expense. Thanks.

reboot

STB. wrote: »

I am not too familiar with Co Down. Your best bet might to ask in the Broadband forum.

The LOS systems that I have seen here in the very south of Ireland have a main Tx and repeaters/access points at various places. The ones I was referring to are commercial companies who offer this type broadband using Ubiquity gear. Mine for example is 15mb down no limits.

They quality varies in how they are run (i.e. too many/not too many customers on each access point etc).

The community aspect > there is a guy in Waterford who set up what I am talking about on a community basis. Have a look in the broadband thread.

Sounds expensive, but might be worth a few hundred per year for that speed.Thanks, things move so slowly up here, I just read broadband on the Moon is faster, Nasa say.

reboot

STB. wrote: »

I am not too familiar with Co Down. Your best bet might to ask in the Broadband forum.

The LOS systems that I have seen here in the very south of Ireland have a main Tx and repeaters/access points at various places. The ones I was referring to are commercial companies who offer this type broadband using Ubiquity gear. Mine for example is 15mb down no limits.

They quality varies in how they are run (i.e. too many/not too many customers on each access point etc).

The community aspect > there is a guy in Waterford who set up what I am talking about on a community basis. Have a look in the broadband thread.

Interesting, sounds similar to the TV system employed in the South for local coverage with small dishes on chimney pots. I did post the question on Broadband Forum, not a single response in 5 days. Which is strange given the topic cuts across at least 3 subjects, Sat, Broadband, and Terrestrial.
Think I may pack it in as my local computer shop guy gave up his Sat broadband with only Up To 2 mb on a good day. Thanks

The Cush

This map displays Wireless ISP coverage south of the border, not sure if there's similar for north of the border - http://irelandoffline.org/map/#/home

http://www.net1.co.ni/coverage/
http://www.nwewn.com/deti/deti_project.php

reboot

The Cush wrote: »

This map displays Wireless ISP coverage south of the border, not sure if there's similar for north of the border - http://irelandoffline.org/map/#/home

http://www.net1.co.ni/coverage/
http://www.nwewn.com/deti/deti_project.php

Thanks for the info, interesting spaces to look out for, sadly the proposed coverage map seems to completely miss out Co.Down.
Thinking way outside the box, BPL broadband over power lines may have It's own problems, but not to mix up too many forums, Kilroot, power Stn , Carrickfergus may soon have biggest battery in Europe. Li-on DC of course ,but Belfast had a DC supply for years, who knows, maybe someone could join up the bits?