Sorry about the internet going slow...

DeVore

... I'm backing it up

Yup, I'm not sure I can quite believe it but I have a half meg
wireless connect into my apartment. I literal refused to let myself
look forward to it until I was looking at Boards.ie streaming in at 512kps.
But its real and it works and I've put it through the ringer and it
passes muster!

The important stats:
Upstream: 128kps

Downstream: 512kps (we're seeing sustained 65Kps downloads.)

Latency: 30-40ms to games1.iol.ie which is considerably better then
eircom adsl which is in the 60-100ms range. That ping time was in DOS
so your mileage may vary in any latency sensitive apps.
First hop to Leap servers is sub 10ms, after that it seems to be into
fibre (unsure about that but from the latency times it looks that way).

Caps: Unmetered.

Cost: 99 Euros a month plus installation (I'm a trialist so I dunno what
the installation is).

Service: The service has been exceptional. Reminds me of living in the US
where people would ring YOU and make sure YOU were happy with their service
rather then you having to sit on the end of a phone playing Greenfields for
half an hour.
Example: their DNS servers were a bit flakey on the day we were set up.
They rang us to explain, they found an alternative then the sales director
rang to make sure we were up and running.
The next day they noticed our connection go down (actually it didnt, their
monitoring software had a glitch) and rang us to debug it.
I hope they maintain that level of service when they get as big as they
deserve
to get.


Bad things:
You need line of sight to Leason St. Bridge

Its a nasty looking attachment to your roof (two brackets and a pole).

It apaprently has some issues with trees, heavy fog etc. I'll check it
out when it rains heavily next time...

Um, nothing else...

Amazing isnt it, Leap offers a decent service with a decent product and
basically
I'm ready to worship them as false gods... Already I find using ISDN
annoying and I specifically have been hunting out those sites and apps
that I wouldnt have bothered with before. Watching BBC streaming in faster
then it can play it just gives me a warm feeling.

If you are thinking about getting this and you have line of sight I'd
highly recommend it. (Btw I'm not involved with Leap nor on a commission
)

I have to shut up now before the Spin guys beat me to death.

DeV.

damnyanks

Can ya post some contact details or a URL or anything

phaxx

www.leap.ie ... you *string of obscenities* dev!

sceptre

Nice one Leap. At least some more people have some choice

jacksonflam

99 euro a month and we're creaming???? (sorry, dreaming...)
they've still got it elsewhere in the modern world for less than 40. if we get excited about these prices, these are the only prices we'll ever get. ireland of the rip-offs is based around this kind of complacency.

bkehoe

Is it 99 inc or ex vat? If ex, its the same as Esat DSL, but still cheaper as there's no line rental. What kind of antenna did they use Devore? Any chance of a few pics?

PiE

Is Leeson street the only base station? I'm quite close to there but theres a big block of flats blocking the LOS :[

Dustaz

Originally posted by bkehoe
Any chance of a few pics?

Wireless pr0n

bricks

I fonud www.winamp.com is good for radio stations.
But on €ircom I can only play for 1/2 hours a day at most:(
You should be able to pop on the radio in the backround and work away.

yankinlk

Congrats to you Devore, but I agree with the statement about price being too high. When I got Chorus a year ago, it was 40 pound incl vat per month...as soon as Errorcom came out with adsl ....Chrorus' price leapt up to 100/month.

They used an excuse that they only accept business customers now and that they dropped the ordinary user 40 /month rate, but go ahead and order it for your home and they won't stop you - as long as you pay the business rate.

I agree, when im out doing jobs on sites where isdn is installed i pull my hair out. in this day and age adsl and wireless 512k should be the standard...isdn is pitifully slow....and the public is eating "High SPEED" up cause they don't know any better.

DeVore

The pings to Games1.iol.ie are weird.... alot of hops through and around NTL.

I can get 30-40pings to that server but not constitently
and in Quake3 pings are about 100 which I dont understand...

More as I get it.

DeV.

spongebob

if NTL are not in the INEX then the hops may go to the UK and back ...probably thru the LINX

run a trace to see, the names often tell the location.

look for mention of LINX or Telehouse in the routher name

M

Hannibal_12

Originally posted by jacksonflam
99 euro a month and we're creaming???? (sorry, dreaming...)
they've still got it elsewhere in the modern world for less than 40. if we get excited about these prices, these are the only prices we'll ever get. ireland of the rip-offs is based around this kind of complacency.

Simply because this is Ireland. We have always had low levels of service at exorbitant costs and been the last to get any sort of new technology. The fact that we have now been confirmed as the 2nd most expensive country in the Eurozone only confirms this. We are a country full of charlatans and avaricious people (Doctors, Dentists........). Eircom is the embodiment of this in my opinion. I truly hope leap expands rapidly and begins to hurt Eircom in the business and residential sectors.

sceptre

Nice point about the pricing, jacksonflam

However any kind of choice at this point is a step forward (keeping in mind, as you say, that if things were reasonable we wouldn't get too excited about it)

I still think that for most who can avail of it, the Irishwan will be the best option as the various local organisations get connected to the Net. At least it'll be sure for those connected that no-one is ripping them off.

Magic Monkey

Now what we need is competition!

Seeing as Leap are the only Wireless Internet providers (bar IrishWAN folk) around ATM, perhaps Eircom/Esat will start a similar service?

Maybe if word gets around of the benefits of what Leap can offer vs. what Eircom have currently to offer, more people will be swayed to go the Wireless route, and force Eircom into rethinking about their products?

*Anything* to drive prices down to affordable amounts... :rolleyes: