Category: Broadband

  • 100mb broadband for €25 per month

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    I wrote a post not so long ago about the state of broadband worldwide and how poorly served we are in Ireland. I showed a table of broadband speeds and prices worldwide – based on the table the average broadband speed was 18mb for 44 US$ per month. However, Lupan, a Japanese reader commented on…

  • Noel Dempsey – Ireland's minister for broadband suppression

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    This is the face in incompetence in Ireland. This is the face of Ireland’s Minister for broadband suppression. This is the face of the minister of communications in Ireland who has presided over Ireland’s languishing: 14th in the EU15 for broadband penetration. That’s the same place we were in 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002 etc. etc.…

  • 52mb broadband for

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    Damien posted the following table of international broadband data from the ITU Notice Japan has 50mb broadband for less than $32 per month? According to Damien the comparable Irish figures are: eircom broadband business plus – 4MB – €107.69 inc vat eircom broadband business enhanced – 5MB – €204 inc vat Digiweb Metro Plus –…

  • Heading off

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    Tom Raftery
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    We (my family and I) are heading off to Spain (on a house swap holiday) so there will be no posting to this blog for a couple of weeks (the house we are getting doesn’t have broadband)! Don’t anyone turn off the Internet while I’m gone!!!

  • Is Ireland finally going to get (expensive) broadband?

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    Tom Raftery
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    Piaras dropped me a note today to let me know that Magnet Networks are rolling out fast broadband in Ireland – I have written previously about the shocking state of broadband in Ireland. Now Magnet are going to offer: 24MB service – €240.00 incl VAT (250 GB download cap) 10 MB – €149.00 incl VAT…

  • Online Ajax Word Processors compared

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have written recently about Web 2.0, and Ajax applications – well another one has appeared today, WriteBoard. Writeboard is an Ajax driven online Word Processor – similar to Writely – one of the other Ajax applications I mentioned last week. There are a couple of differences and similarities between Writely and Writeboard which are…

  • What exactly is Web 2.0

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    Tom Raftery
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    Web 2.0 is a term which is being used more and more these days but what exactly is it? It seems to be kinda like beauty, in that it is “in the eye of the beholder” – i.e. its definition depends on who you ask. Obviously it refers to some kind of next version of…

  • Rip-off broadband

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    Tom Raftery
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    Jeez are we being screwed for pricing of broadband in this country, or what? I’m currently looking around at the best offerings for dsl broadband and the offers are around 40 euro for 2mb broadband – while in the UK, BE are offering 24mb broadband for £24 per month! £24 is roughly equal to 36…