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sorry, but no there isn't more to it at all.
802.11a (using 3.7 or 5Ghz) isn't commonly used at all in Europe and as such is not normally supported on any devices you can buy here.
the vast majority of wireless devices bought in the last 10 years will support both 802.11b & 802.11g at 2.4Ghz. some newer devices released in the last couple of years will also support 802.11n (at 2.4 and/or 5Ghz) and the newer standards are backwards compatible on the 2.4Ghz range so any router supporting 802.11n should also allow any b/g/n device to connect to it although the overall speed of your wireless network may well suffer as a result.
with all due respect...i throw my best educated guess in here...we don't know what user has at home !!
i have A,B, G and N running all over Dublin / Europe !
regards !
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err, yes we do because he told us in an earlier post. he's trialling the 100mbps UPC service with the 802.11n wireless router they gave him. :rolleyes:with all due respect...i throw my best educated guess in here...we don't know what user has at home !!
you personally? you must have a really big wireless network. :rolleyes:i have A,B, G and N running all over Dublin / Europe !
regards !
you can read all the articles you like about what standards are licenced where, but if you actually had a decent amount of real world experience of wireless devices, you'd know that 802.11a is about as popular as syphilis and as such is very rarely if ever actually used and as such has only limited support.
the dominating wireless standard in Europe WAS initially 802.11b IS currently 802.11g, and is rapidly being overtaken by 802.11n as people demand faster wireless access than 802.11g can deliver, such as with 100mbps broadband.
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well, it was originally scheduled for spring 2010 when it was first announced, then it was summer 2010 when they missed that, then sept/oct 2010 when they missed that and more recently jan 2011 but thats all gone a bit quiet now, so who knows when we'll actually get it.crashoveroid wrote: »Rumor has it Q1 maybe Q2 next year.
its a good sign that they're actually running trials now, but a pretty bad sign that they are more actively enforcing the 250gb AUP/FUP just recently as it would seem to indicate a lack of available bandwidth for the uprades, but who knows.
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well, it was originally scheduled for spring 2010 when it was first announced, then it was summer 2010 when they missed that, then sept/oct 2010 when they missed that and more recently jan 2011 but thats all gone a bit quiet now, so who knows when we'll actually get it.
its a good sign that they're actually running trials now, but a pretty bad sign that they are more actively enforcing the 250gb AUP/FUP just recently as it would seem to indicate a lack of available bandwidth for the uprades, but who knows.
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yes and no. when UPC first launched 120mbps in the netherlands they announced that they would be launching 120mbps in ALL their territories by the beginning of 2010 (which Ireland was part of) so take from that what you will, BUT even if you don't count that statement as including us, when it was first officially announced for Ireland it was still going to be 120mbps and it was scheduled for the middle of 2010.IrishTonyO wrote: »100MB was never scheduled for spring 2010
whichever way you slice it, they're still pretty late getting it rolled out. 0 -
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yes and no. when UPC first launched 120mbps in the netherlands they announced that they would be launching 120mbps in ALL their territories by the beginning of 2010 (which Ireland was part of) so take from that what you will, BUT even if you don't count that statement as including us, when it was first officially announced for Ireland it was still going to be 120mbps and it was scheduled for the middle of 2010.
whichever way you slice it, they're still pretty late getting it rolled out.
They didn't say it was scheduled, they said
Smyth said the intention is to have the 120Mbps offering in place by the middle of 20100 -
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jeez, I'm on the 15Mb and not worthwhile moving up to the 30Mb because of the same 250gig limit, most definitely not worth my while moving to 100Mb line with such a (relatively) low limit, would hit 500gig in less than a week given those download speeds.
Also answers another speculation about how much the limits may move once 100Mb launched, answer = zero 0
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