Amish Community In Stillorgan

istep

Damn this bband is infuriating.

Thinking of setting up an amish community in stillorgan as over the last several years bband has been unavailable to me.

eircom .... line not suitable (" what replace your copper are you mad ted we're far too busy rolling out bband ") Also told by "helpful" eircom employee/robot that YOUR line is not up to required quality ...spent a frustrating 20 mins trying to explain that it was her/eircoms line I only pay sky high rent for this quality line! ARRRRGGGHHH!

Anyway calm down ther's always NTL cable way better then DSL anyway! NTL " sorry only available in tallaght and parts of dub 16 however we will be rolling out in the next year" ( this told to me every year for the last 3 years ! Anyways have you seen NTL's balance sheet they couldn't have rolled out a wheelbarrow over the last 3 years )

No dice

Irish BBand come in your service is required.
No good ripwave (irish bband product) needs strict line of sight to three rock mast or rte tower which apparently is not available from stillorgan !

So it is with great pride that I launch the Society of Amish In Stillorgan we'd like to reach out to any more brotherhoods around the country.

OfflerCrocGod

nice one - there are many like you who yearn for the simpler life - I'm sure you will have many converts and when your numbers are great enough you can kill eircon:D.

RobertFoster

Originally posted by OfflerCrocGod
when your numbers are great enough you can kill eircon

that's against their way of life, English.

Robbo

Tis a fine barn but sure tis no wireless broadband mast, English...

Ripwave

Originally posted by istep
No good ripwave (irish bband product) needs strict line of sight to three rock mast or rte tower which apparently is not available from stillorgan !

Ripwave absoluetly DOES NOT require strict line of sight - that's the whole point!

I've used Ripwave in a North facing bedroom, with block walls between it and the 3 Rock mast.

Superman

i'm curious, Are there many Amish people in ireland?

RobertFoster

well, you wont find any on here...

istep

Ripwave originally said

Ripwave absoluetly DOES NOT require strict line of sight - that's the whole point!

Well I had the tech guy at my house last summer and he said ripwave at the time was los ( hence he wass positioning the unit upstairs in my house at a window that had to be facing three rock ) Damn it if it's not line of sight I would get a signal in stillorgan I am literaly 3 mins drive from IBB in Sandyford they are just a bit more elevated.

Ibb tried me on a different product that did not need strict los ( these were their words) which meant another visit from the techs installing this square reciever on my roof about 12" x 12" the tech guy ( bruce that personable aussie guy again ) gave me a web sight to look up on this technology and it blabbed on about how it could be recieved through buildings and trees ( even trees can give ripwave problems I was told )

So there you have it.

Maybe the change in frequency to 5.8gghz has something to do with it?

tribble

Originally posted by Superman
i'm curious, Are there many Amish people in ireland?

There is some down in Wexford is there not?

tribble

ChipZilla

Originally posted by Superman
i'm curious, Are there many Amish people in ireland?

Sure are. The Beachy Amish:

http://www.mwc-cmm.org/Directory/europe.html

There's only 15 of them in the country mind...

ballooba

Look up www.navini.com if you want info on the technology behind Ripwave.

ballooba

Originally posted by tribble
There is some down in Wexford is there not?

tribble

I think that's knackers and strawberrys.

istep

fair nuff.... I'll have a punnet of strawberries then!

Ripwave

Originally posted by istep
Well I had the tech guy at my house last summer and he said ripwave at the time was los ( hence he wass positioning the unit upstairs in my house at a window that had to be facing three rock ) Damn it if it's not line of sight I would get a signal in stillorgan I am literaly 3 mins drive from IBB in Sandyford they are just a bit more elevated.

Then you misunderstood him, or have gotten your systems mixed up. Ripwave is the ONLY NLOS (non-Line of Sight) offering from IBB.

(And being 3 minutes from their office in Sandyford wouldn't make any difference, as the Ripwave Transmitter is on 3 Rock, not in Sandyford).

Moonbeam

Ripwave is right

Ripwave is non los
Everything else needs los

istep

(And being 3 minutes from their office in Sandyford wouldn't make any difference, as the Ripwave Transmitter is on 3 Rock, not in Sandyford).

Ripwave the reason I said that was that the tech told me they were getting multi mbit signals from 3 rock at sandyford just 3 mins from my house.

Point taken on the NLOS but why was he hanging the damn unit upstairs pointing it at 3 rock ???

OK read that back ... presumably trying to get a stronger signal ( go to the back of the class istep )

Da Man

Neither here nor there, but somebody wispered in my ear that the Ripwave stuff violates the 2.4GHz power regulations.

istep

Still didn't hear back on one of my original questions ... can anyone useing ripwave let me know how they find it is it as good as / better than dsl

Moonbeam

Wait for their 3.5ghz stuff to be in use and then ask the question again

Ripwave

Originally posted by Da Man
Neither here nor there, but somebody wispered in my ear that the Ripwave stuff violates the 2.4GHz power regulations.

They might have been violating it last year, but given the performance for the last couple of months, I don't think they're violating it now

Ripwave

Originally posted by istep
Still didn't hear back on one of my original questions ... can anyone useing ripwave let me know how they find it is it as good as / better than dsl

At the moment, the 2.4GHz gear is giving me little better than dialup performance. (slightly better throughput, but worse latency).

chabsey

Ripwave is not 'technically' LOS but in the absense of a clear and strong signal the tech guy installing it will start wandering around rooms, go upstairs in your house, point it at windows facing three rock and generally act like it is very much related to positioning.

Put it this way, to use Ripwave properly (ie. to get a decent speed out of it) you might not have to be able to *see* the transmitter but in some cases you might have to be very limited in terms of where you can acutally place the device.

Note that this isn't every case, just a couple of cases I've heard of. My own experience of ripwave was that it barely worked and if the clouds aligned correctly and all the leaves on all the trees in Dublin stayed perfectly still then you *might* get connected. Some others have no problems at all, just don't assume that because you're within it's range that it'll work.

Ripwave

Originally posted by chabsey
Ripwave is not 'technically' LOS but in the absense of a clear and strong signal the tech guy installing it will start wandering around rooms, go upstairs in your house, point it at windows facing three rock and generally act like it is very much related to positioning.

Obviously, you'll get a better signal in some parts of the house than others. Usually, placing it in a window facing 3 Rock will get a better signal than you'd get stuck in a corner on the other side of the house.

Unfortunately, unlike your average mobile phone, the Ripwave unit doesn't have any way of indicating how strong the signal is at any given time (a 3 colour LED hardly counts, and the software that's supposed to deliver that info to your PC doesn't work with Win2K, Windows XP, or through a firewall).

istep

The more I hear I'm kinda glad it didn't work at my place!