wimax broadband going nationwide

bassy

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if anyone is interested in kilkenny city and kilkenny county,wiimax is a company that has launched recently with a few live spots already up and running.the more interest the receive from your area then your area will become live.

i have nothing what so ever to do with the company,am posting this because i was a ice broadband customer and our area has been down for over a month now and no sign of it returning.so i was doing a search on google and discovered wiimax it looks a really great service with 7mb down for 35 per month.
i was giving ice bb 37.99 for 3mb down and it was,nt actually 3mb i was getting from them,it was far less.

i also spoke to wiimax on the phone and the say that you get the 7mb 24/7 its not just saying we give you 7mb down and you end up getting 3mb down.its 7mb down 24/7.

would be great if people from kk could sign up your interest on the site,as i said the more interest the get from one area then thats the area that will get priority with going live.

www.imagine.ie/wimax-splash/index.html

check it out and see what you think.

Cabaal

It looks great on paper but very little reports of people actually using it on the Broadband forum which is concerning.

Imagine fecked up big time as they kept advertising "coming soon" and saying they'd have a press release soon to announce it but as the kept delaying it more and more people got pissed off with them....and rightly so

I'd be very sceptical about their speed claims as you'll notice Three Mobile also claims you'll receive this and that speed and even the government has claimed that Three's NBS network will provide a minimum speed of 1MB....yet such a speed cannot be guaranteed on Three's network due to the technology being used (basically you can't control contention)

imho people in Kilkenny would be better off looking for cable and ADSL, if eircom upgraded the existing exchanges to ADSL2+ this would slighly improve the exisiting reach of ADSL availability on phone lines throughout Kilkenny City & County.

the following exchange however will NOT be upgraded to ADSL2+ as it stands right now
BALLYRAGGET BRT Kilkenny
BENNETTSBRIDGE BTB Kilkenny
CALLAN CLN Kilkenny
CASTLECOMER CCM Kilkenny
FRESHFORD FFD Kilkenny
GORESBRIDGE GBE Kilkenny
GRAIGUENAMANAGH GMH Kilkenny
JENKINSTOWN JKN Kilkenny
JOHNSTOWN JSN Kilkenny
MOONCOIN MCN Kilkenny
THOMASTOWN TTN Kilkenny

Getting WiMax in even Kilkenny City may likely be a long way off, if you look at Waterford you'll see they have three transmitters all three are pre-wimax, kilkenny only has one and its also pre-wimax.

You'd want an AWFUL LOT of interest before Imagine would even consider more then one transmietter outside of the city.

fabbydabby

Don't get me started on three 'broadband'. I was never foolhardy enough to actually pay for it, but I have used it on other people's computer from time to time and every internet browsing experience leaves me trembling with rage. It's just impossible to get anything done efficiently with it.

was giving ice bb 37.99 for 3mb

A cool €38 for Ice? This seems rather steep, no? I am paying €50ish a month for 15megs down with Chorus/NTL - no problems with it at all - and I get TV with that too. Getting a really good ping/jitter off the exchange as well it must be just around the corner. Download a 400 meg movie in about 7 mins. Wonderful.

bassy

fabbydabby wrote: »

Don't get me started on three 'broadband'. I was never foolhardy enough to actually pay for it, but I have used it on other people's computer from time to time and every internet browsing experience leaves me trembling with rage. It's just impossible to get anything done efficiently with it.

A cool €38 for Ice? This seems rather steep, no? I am paying €50ish a month for 15megs down with Chorus/NTL - no problems with it at all - and I get TV with that too. Getting a really good ping/jitter off the exchange as well it must be just around the corner. Download a 400 meg movie in about 7 mins. Wonderful.

living in the sticks gives me no choice,no eircom bb here.
digiweb want 30 euro per month for 1 mb down and 256kb up,so ice looks a bargain compared to that.
but ice is now down in my area over a month now without ice.
so i had to buy a o2 modem which is really only and good for browsing the web.:(

Gonzovision

Try Permanet. Usually good for rural areas. I'm on the 3mb and find it very good. Was using 3g up until it became available.

bassy

no coverage in my area m8

gonzovision wrote: »

Try Permanet. Usually good for rural areas. I'm on the 3mb and find it very good. Was using 3g up until it became available.