Comments on: Wireless broadband? Not by a long shot… http://178.63.27.54:8080/statictangents/2007/08/14/wireless-broadband-not-by-a-long-shot/ Random tangents Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:09:44 +0000 hourly 1 By: wilkav http://178.63.27.54:8080/statictangents/2007/08/14/wireless-broadband-not-by-a-long-shot/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:09:44 +0000 http://stochasticgeometry.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/wireless-broadband-not-by-a-long-shot/#comment-18 This system is a joke: I have it about two months now and it has been getting progressively worse. I can only assume more people are signing up for it so the shareout is becoming smaller.I use it under Ubuntu, OSX and Win XP and there is no difference. I had one of their techies ring me back and “talk” me through msconfig settings, uninstalling programmes and rubbish like that. Eventually he agreed that the real problem is that the contention ratio is far too high. Mine has never connected or worked under 3G either in Carlow, where I live, or in Dublin. Speeds vary between 600Bps to 60kBps. Yet, they continue to advertise it and no one has bothered to point out their lies to them.
I’m giving them one more month, by which time it should have ceased to function. Then to the small claims court to see if I can recoup the price of the modem. Caveat emptor.

]]> By: Mark Dennehy http://178.63.27.54:8080/statictangents/2007/08/14/wireless-broadband-not-by-a-long-shot/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:22:35 +0000 http://stochasticgeometry.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/wireless-broadband-not-by-a-long-shot/#comment-17 Who in turn work for 3, according to yourself Bernard!

Bernard
Aug 14th, 2007 at 1:53 pm

Hi Tom,

(I work for one of the companies who is building the 3 Ireland ISP to speed things up :])

]]> By: bernard http://178.63.27.54:8080/statictangents/2007/08/14/wireless-broadband-not-by-a-long-shot/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:06:57 +0000 http://stochasticgeometry.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/wireless-broadband-not-by-a-long-shot/#comment-16 Clarification:

I don’t work for 3.

I work for someone else.

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