9 meg cable service (40 euro a month)

dlofnep

But just before you nearly get over-excited, I must warn you, that yes, it is infact cablesurf once again.

Just when you think that he cut the cake with his 5 meg service, he's upped the bandwidth to 9 megs for the price of a few pints and a packet of crisp (40 euro). Anyways, I wouldn't worry about it. It will only be another 5-6 years before 9 megs is the norm nationwide. I'm sure you can all wait.

K!LL!@N

That's amazing!
How are they able to do this?
And why isn't this being done elsewhere?

Killian

parasite

wow, there's nothing in it for them, seeing as the competition is so so far behind, are they just nice guys, or something ?

"180x faster than dial-up"

/weeps

bennyx_o

Hmm, dumb question, but can you only get this in Waterford?

OfflerCrocGod

Christ that's just unfair:(, how the hell can that backwater have so much bandwidth?.

parasite

maybe they're upping it to 9 megs to stick two fingers to smug Dubliners people who say dungarvan's a 'backwater'

Mutant_Fruit

Right, lets get a few people together and get a bucketload of antennes set up running from waterford to rathfarnham, and we can bring the 9meg goodness to dublin via wirelessness.

Other than that, lets go to waterford!

OfflerCrocGod

Originally posted by parasite
maybe they're upping it to 9 megs to stick two fingers to smug Dubliners people who say dungarvan's a 'backwater'

Ye they now have tons of bandwidth therefore --> dungarvan > Dublin. Or then again maybe not, I find Dublin small and boring dungarvan would be hell.

Placebo

Right, lets get a few people together and get a bucketload of antennes set up running from waterford to rathfarnham, and we can bring the 9meg goodness to dublin via wirelessness.

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lol

Superman

Thats pretty good for Dungarven!
Is there any govt. dept. moving down there because of de-centralisation?

Ripwave

Originally posted by Superman
Thats pretty good for Dungarven!
Is there any govt. dept. moving down there because of de-centralisation?

The Minister for e-voting is moving "his" civil servants (Dept of the Environment) to Wexford. I don't know if anything is going to Waterford.

(It boggles the mind that people don't recognize that Government Ministers making decisions to "decentralize" departments to their own constituencies is a textbook case of corruption. But that's another thread).

rymus

Balls to Sweden, I'm moving to Waterford!

egan007

unreal - fair play to cablesurf

gombín

Originally posted by Superman

Is there any govt. dept. moving down there because of de-centralisation?

Ordnance Survey (300 employees, I believe)

Regards.

Superman

Originally posted by gombín
Ordnance Survey (300 employees, I believe)

Regards.

Ah well I know wehat i'm doin when I get my B.A. in Geography!

spongebob

Further details Here

One is further blessed in Dungarvan in that you can ditch the €ircon Phone Line with its €24 a month rental which means that the marginal cost of the BB itself, per Mbit is €40-€24 = €16 which, when divided by 9 gives you a price of €1.77 per Mbit per month uncapped.

The cheapest €ircon product is the €30 on top of the line rental product with the 4Gb cap which runs at 512k ........thats a marginal cost of €60 per Mbit per month on top of the Line Rental .

So apart for being 18 Times faster than the cheapest DSL it also costs less than 3% of what an Eircom phone line and a minimum DSL package would cost you on a marginal price per Mbit basis once the line rental is excluded.

M

Ripwave

Originally posted by Muck
So apart for being 18 Times faster than the cheapest DSL it also costs less than 3% of what an Eircom phone line and a minimum DSL package would cost you

Wow - you surpass yourself, Muck!

spongebob

Actually that was UTV BB on an €ircon line where €ircon pick up the bulk of the €30 thru their wholesale mechanism, the cheapest €ircon BB is €40 a month .

sorry for dissing UTV there.

M

The Clown Man

What kind of setup do they have does anyone know?

Are they using 2-way digital cable? How come they can afford to set up 2-way cable when NTL can only afford a few streets in Dublin? What's the upload speed? And most of all how the hell can the afford to give away all this bandwidth?!

vibe666

b0llocks to that, I'm moving to Japan.

100mbit fibre connection for less than €30 a month pls. you could host half the dsl customers in dublin on your own with bandwidth like that.

only another 10 years or so before it's here and we can all burn our 56k modems. :ninja:

rymus

Originally posted by vibe666
only another 10 years or so before it's here and we can all burn our 56k modems. :ninja:

Add another zero to that 10 and you just might be close.