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| Graney |
Unidentified objectThere's an odd round bright object in the sky at the moment.Me and the animals are all confused. Anyone know what it could be. |
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| quarryman |
It's a sign from God.
He's wondering why we picked to live in Ireland ! |
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| wayland |
whatever it is and whoever sent it. Let it stay for a while longer please. | ||
| blowin |
There was something on the radio a few weeks ago . If it is easily the brightest object in the sky then it is ? either the big space lab they are building or a new comms satelite . Something like that anyway . I think they said it would be visible from IE for several weeks . Must take a look .
 Maybe Eircom put it there to give me broadband  .
Beam me up , Scottie . |
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| BT Graney |
It's here again today. I remember seeing something like it back in May. Perhaps it's because there's a Y in the month 
I gather Broadband is a bit of an issue, Blowin 
Ducks to avoid flying morse decoder currently in use in Sligo |
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| quarryman |
Broadband in Ireland.
The ten Government commitments are: 1. Government will target capital investment of €435m to address the digital divide 2. Universal broadband coverage in Ireland by late 2009 / early 2010 3. 100 Mbits per second broadband connectivity to be introduced to secondary schools on a phased basis 4. Future investment will be determined in accordance with value for money review of the Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) 5. Ensure Ireland’s continued high level of international connectivity 6. Major public infrastructure projects will have to install ducting at the construction phase. Government will establish a one stop shop to provide service providers with flexible and open access to existing and future ducting infrastructure 7. New premises will be required to install open access fibre connections where practicable 8. Maintenance of the regulatory framework necessary for fair and transparent competition across a range of platforms. Allocation of spectrum to encourage trialling and development of flexible new mobile technologies 9. Use of Government purchasing power in order to stimulate demand, create economies of scale and better public services 10. Establishment of a specialised research programme to monitor developments A public forum on the Next Generation Broadband Consultation Paper which will include consumer groups and industry will meet in September on a date to be announced. The date for the final receipt of written submissions on this consultation paper will be towards the end of September. A full copy of the consultation paper is available at: http://www.dcmnr.gov.ie/Communica...al+Division/Public+Consultations/ This of course does not include Mass Hill, which we all know is the land that time forgot. Eircom will never supply broadband is thinly populated rural areas. The only hope will be wireless, Fastcom etc, or 3G data cards, O2, Vodafone etc which is not actually broadband but fast dialup. Keep at the local politicians and the telecoms companies and maybe someday we will see Blowin in full colour on a live feed from the mountain. |
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| Graney |
Sorry, I couldn't help having a bit of a joke about Broadband. Perhaps it's got beyond a joke 
Also, don't blame Mrs Graney. I used her PC and forgot to log her out. Dial-up was desperate here. The lines are so flaky it lasted on average 3 minutes before it failed. So we were pretty happy to join a co-op to install a community wireless scheme 2 years ago. OK, it's not up to true broadband speeds, but it's pretty good for normal browsing and email use .... and it hasn't failed once in two years. I guess if you wanted to download lots of music or films it would be frustrating, but that's not for us. We got about a third of the set-up costs paid in grants and it's €35 a month. Well worth considering IMHO for areas where broadband just ain't going to happen. |
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| wayland |
LOL . The big round shinny object is here right now. As to a favourite subject. Econ Broadband  . I asked one of the line men if he had come to connect us to BB. He checked a gizmo and said our line is good for it and told us to phone Eircom. This we did and they said our line was not suitable  Apparently we have to live within three miles of a BB exchange. We live three and a half miles and so cannot operate BB. The line man said the only way we could get BB is if the present line gets damaged. Then the line gets replaced with the updated stuff so increasing the availability. So who has a big tow truck?
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