Setting up Co-Operatives?

Mark_irl

We are never going too get affordable Flate Rate access through are phonelines, Eircom have our politicians in their pockets. It's time we started thinking outside the "unbundled local loops" and start non Profit local Co-operatives too provide low cost Broadband , the technology is affordable, and getting cheaper all the time, http://www.etherlinx.com/index.htm
and
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/jun02/wire.html

So i suggest people in each Province or County get in touch with each other and explore the possibilities, we've got too help ourselfs and not sit back and moan about others

sceptre

Some people are already taking the bull by the horns on this one

www.irishwan.org

(just .org - like an idiot I've been typing in .com and .ie for the last few days)

Might be worth getting in contact if there's already a group in your area.

MrPudding

This is exactly what Irsih WAN is doing. The Dublin WAN is in it's infancy and needs all the members it can get. For a couple of hundred Euros you can get a fast wireless connection to other WAN users. This can be used for gaming and file sharing. When there are enough people on it we can look at sharing net connections. There are a coulple of nodes set up at the moment with more on the way. The more people that join the cheaper it will be for fast net connections. There is no ongoing charge for the WAN access.