Bit of activity outside the house
Bang, bang, bang, bang <pause>
Bang, bang, bang, bang <another pause>
…..
What on earth is going on outside? Thought I as I was aroused from my slumber at 8am this morning.
Looked out the window to see someone busily digging up the road with a jackhammer and a JCB.
I had completely forgotten that it was today that the street was being dug up to lay the conduits for the fibre optic MAN‘s that the government are sponsoring. As far as I know they are only laying the conduits and no fibre has actually been run yet.
Now I can rest assured that by the end of today the infrastructre for the Youghal MAN will be complete (This is the last section to be completed) and just 7 feet from my front door is the means to get me connected to a fibre network. Provided someone runs the fibre of course.
I was tempted to ring eircom or another ISP for a quote but I think that €30,000 or so per year would be a bit excessive just for having a faster net connection.
Sigh!
22 queries. 0.525 seconds.
It would need to be fast for €30,000!
Greased lightening Grannymar.
pick up a few rusty old wimax AP’s at the car boot sale and start your own ISP?
Been tempted to do that actually. I thought WiMAX needs a licence no?
dunno. for some of the frequencies maybe not in most countries in ireland mary harney or some other fianna fail fuck will probably want to do a deal with some pesky little foreign private company and give them all the spectrum.
More than likely