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Originally Posted by irishbear  I don't see the reason for you to get personal with me, or how you could conclude that I could update their website.! I live in Ferns, and know exactly where Adamstown is. I am only here passing what ever information I find out about the service, because I know that many people are fed up with Calidas. I was not speaking about the Ferns covering the whole county, would have thought anyone with half a brain would know that!! They now Have a sight in Clonroche, and one in Gelenbrien, This is on a hill with a very high mast and has I am led to believe about a 15 mile radious. But what I was really speaking about is the amount of masts that may become available to them, maybe already have done as I write this.
As for the Map in question, that is there since it was first installed in Ferns.
As for the backhaul, I did not know that Calidas had one. I know of at least 3 individuals here in Ferns that do online gaming on NWB without any problems.
I am in no way involved with NWB only as a customer, "and a very satisfied one at that"
So if you really do need updated info why don't you pick up the phone and ring them to see if your area is covered or not. It's amazing what you can find out from a simple phone call. |
Irishbear - apologies, I clearly picked up on your previous post incorrectly, it appeared you has some inside knowledge of their service - I appreciate now that that is from being a customer of NWB, nothing else. No offense was intended.
On the point of the back haul - this is only info from NWB's own website (in the About Us section if I remember correctly). My brother used a WISP with a sat back haul in a rural part of Scotland for about 24 months (community of about 15 houses in a villiage, provider went in and setup as per the model NWB's site say they use), he was OK with some games (MMOs) but for low ping requirements of, for example, Battlefield, Counter-Stike etc, the slight delay rendered playing useless.
You are right, I could call to them to see if the info about the back haul and the coverage map are out of date, but I'm with PermaNet now for 12 months anyway, so may do next year - who knows! Eircon may actully have converted the local exchange by then.....<dream sequence>.
Having said that about NWB's site, PermaNets and Callidus's site are not much more informative. You would think the website of an ISP would be slightly more decent than these three examples.
On a slightly different point, but perhaps more on topic, when the PermaNet engineer came out and took down my Callidus equipment (which they have still not picked up) he commented that the bridge on my roof was only a "pad" and not, as he was installing, a "mesh". I'm not sure about the technical differences between the two, but its looks fairly clear that the mesh will allow for a wider spread of angle for a good signal - perhaps this was the route of some (but not all i.e. outages) Callidus problems.
As I mentioned above, I still get the IFA (Callidus service) text messages when their is an outage - its is appalling the number of these I've seen in the time since I moved to PermaNet, I'm just glad I jumped when I could.