[ILUG] OT: folks who've had trouble getting online in Ireland

[Barry O'Donovan]

On Wed 28 Jul 2004 13:56, Cian Cullinan wrote:
> So has anyone tried this "Ripwave" product of theirs?
> https://www.irishbroadband.ie/htmdocs/our_products/ripwave.htm
>
> On the down side it's asymmetrical (512Kbps dwnld, 128Kbps upld), but
> on the plus side there's no external antenna required AFAICT.

You're right - there is no external modem required. I actually tried to 
get this over the aerial as I live in rented accommodation, but it 
wasn't available in my area at the time.

Before I signed up with Irish Broadband I went looking for peoples 
opinions and found lots on boards.ie (but a disclaimer - people love to 
complain and hate to praise - take it all with a grain of salt). 

As for the aerial - it's not too much hastle. They have a mounting kit 
for chimneys that requires no drilling, run the cable down the 
extoerior walls and drill on small hole to bring it into the house. 
Since I got it last March/April I have had no service outages and no 
problems of any other kind.

B.

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