does anyone know what the hell this broadband dish is?

trendykendy

Just moved into an apartment and the landlords are completely clueless. They told me I could get UPC in (to be fair, UPC also told me I could get service when i called them up) but it turns out the cable is only connected to a sky dish. On the back of the house though is this weird square dish. There's an ethernet cable running out of it into the house, and when i plug into it i get a standard 192.168.x.x ip address. My apartment is the only with this dish, and the landlords havent a notion of what it is! Has anyone seen something like this before?

sk1

hi, this is wireless internet access, the previous person must have installed it, there are different companies who offer wifi access like http://www.webworld.ie/wireless.php - it´s just one of many but, don´t know if there is a list of such providers on boards.ie, probably yes but i´m too lazy to search

trendykendy

great stuff, cheers buddy!

neacy69

could be digiweb or Irish Boadband??? thry provide wireless which uses a similar dish

knotknowbody

neacy69 wrote: »

could be digiweb or Irish Boadband??? thry provide wireless which uses a similar dish

Not Irish Broadband they never used that particular kind of a dish to my knowledge, they only used alvarion gear for their external antenna's, could be digiweb but can't be sure as the pic is a litttle unclear

watty

Not Metro, as that uses a coax cable. But could be some other FWALA Digiweb, but not a housing I recognise and the other Digiweb FWALA I've used needs a separate router with specific settings to work at all.

There are dozens of possibilities.

If it uses a licence or Registered 5.8Ghz, the area will on Comreg's maps and you can use that to find supplier.

codplayer

were are you located?

Karmafaerie

Just because the Coax cable leads to a sky dish doesn't mean tht you can't get UPC.
It probably just means that UPC has never been used here.
Have UPC told you that it's not available now?