O2 11MB access all areas

Slutmonkey57b · 25-01-2003 1:28pm #1

Yes, full broadband net access at broadband speeds to be launched early in February.

To business customers.

In urban areas (dublin, cork, galway, limerick) around hotspot sites.

But you can pay with pay-as-you-go vouchers.

But you don't want to know what they're charging.

Oh right you might.
10 quid an hour.
Heh heh. Cheap at half the price as eircon might say.

zynaps · 25-01-2003 4:36pm

Unless there are bandwidth usage caps, that works out at... about 4.6 gigs per hour? I might be wrong there, kbits/mbits are kinda annoying (bits per second = baud = signal level changes per second? = .125 bytes per second?)...

If this is the case, it might be useful if you wanted to download something massive without having to spend a number of weeks doing it

Compared to the equivalent time at the maximum speed you could get on dialup (assuming 48kbps, the average I get on nolimits), this would take about 220 hours.
If you were being charged by the hour for this by eircom, it'd obviously be less worth it

Still stupidly expensive though, and obviously not practical as a real broadband solution as you're not only paying for how long you're online, you're paying a horrible amount for it... 240 euros a day?

iwb · 26-01-2003 8:34am

Also, maximum throughput on wifi is about 6Mbps anyway. And of course if you aren't the only one using it, you are sharing the bandwidth and all this is assuming the AP is backed by at least 6Mbps all the way to a decent gateway, which is very unlikely.
I went into the Four Seasons in Ballsbridge a while ago. It is the only registered hotspot in Ireland. You can sign up for access for the day for 20 Euros. Not cheap unless you have a huge amount to download or a whole days work to do. Still, it's a better option than O2.

Slutmonkey57b · 26-01-2003 10:21am

4 seasons is one of several sites o2 are using for the trial. Others are Bewleys, Jurys, Westbury, Shelbourne and believe it or not Heuston station.

ozpass · 26-01-2003 10:53am

Is it all Jury's Inns countrywide that are trialling this system? I can see one of the Cork Jury's Inns from my window (it's about 200m away).......

Slutmonkey57b · 26-01-2003 3:22pm

The inns don't cater to the market they're looking to penetrate. They're looking at multinationals, corporates, and tech companies whose employees will already be using wireless access.
There are a few minor bog hotels that will be trialling it but I don't know the names.