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how do i get broadband

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  • 06-10-2006 6:42pm
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    bubthatub
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    hi i live in co.sligo and altough broadband is available to sligo city and a few other towns it is not available where i live can someone tell me how would i get them to turn on the broadband exchange where i live? would i have to get maybe 50-100 people presigned up first before they would be interested in supplying broadband?

    i really need broadband in my home as dial up is doing my head in.


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    weewoman
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    Don't Get Bt.....they Are Crap!!!!!!!!!


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    Foxwood
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    bubthatub wrote:
    hi i live in co.sligo and altough broadband is available to sligo city and a few other towns it is not available where i live can someone tell me how would i get them to turn on the broadband exchange where i live? would i have to get maybe 50-100 people presigned up first before they would be interested in supplying broadband?

    i really need broadband in my home as dial up is doing my head in.
    Check www.broadband.gov.ie to see wht sort of broadband options are available to you.

    There is no process for having a telephone exchange enabled. If eircom think that it's worth their while enabling an exchange, they'll enable it. If they don't think it's worth their while, they won't. They claim that it costs them an average of €100,000 to enable an echange, so you might need a few more than 100 people signed up to make it worth their while.


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    Creamy Goodness
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    weewoman wrote:
    Don't Get Bt.....they Are Crap!!!!!!!!!
    there are plenty worse companies out there than BT tbh.


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    dogpile
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    IBB Ripwave..no phone lines required, plug straight into PC and away you go..it's not exactly cutting edge but a helluva lot faster than dial-up..having said that I'm on the lookout for something better..


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    machalla
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    There was an interview with the CEO of Eircon (Rex Comb) today which might be relevant to your situation. Its not positve, I'm sorry to say.

    Possibly Westnet might be of some help?

    http://www.westnet.ie/

    I would think Ripwave is only available in large urban areas (it may be available to you but I just don't know). Its not got a good reputation though as a product.

    Perhaps another option might be vodafone or o2s 3g product? Not cheap though (€50 a month) and most likely not available.

    --
    Comb's stance on broadband is similar to that of Nolan in that he says it simply isn't economic for Eircom to enable the 700 phone exchanges that constitute the final 25 per cent of lines, most of which are in rural areas.

    Doing that would cost €70 million, Comb says. "It doesn't matter what the take-up would be because we would never get a payback." The solution should encompass a measure of public funding via public tender. He believes the Government is amenable to a solution but he says "nothing is finalised".


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