[ILUG] Ildána broadband, anyone?

[Niall O Broin]

Have any of you used Ildána broadband? They're rolling out wireless 
broadband in rural areas, and a friend living between Kilcock and 
Summerhill is awaiting an install. A quick forward and reverse DNS 
lookup on their website leads to the conclusion that they use satellite 
for the backhaul, so latency is going to be wonderful. Mind you, my 
friend lives in the shadow, nearly, of the Atlantic 252 mast, leading 
to phoneline interference so that he gets 14.4K dialup, so I expect a 
little latency will be seen as a reasonable tradeoff for a large speed 
increase.

Their website is astonishingly uninformative. I downloaded their 
application form, and I see they have four products, but there is NO 
mention of these products on their website, and the registration form 
says nothing about what the various products entail.

In any event, it's not a service for the iTunes user - §4.10 of the T & 
C states

Subscribers may not use the service to download from the internet any 
music or film

and in case that's not clear enough, §4.11 of the T & C states

Subscribers may not use the service to download from the internet any 
music or film files of any kind.

So, any users out there, with any opinions?


Niall