Regional Broadband

[raymoll]

Any of you any experience positive / Negative of Regional Broadband (http://www.regionalbroadband.ie/), looking at them as an aslernative to clearwire, in the Bray / Eniskerry area

[wspolzielnia]

No experience with regionalbroadband themselves, but am on a rural fixed wireless scheme down here in Gorey and it's so so. Quite patchy at times (depending on weather conditions, line of site and state of mast). Am paying for a 2Mb SDSL package but am not getting a constant service to be honest. At times connectivity is non existent, at others it fantastic with download speeds in excess of 3Mb and uploads in excess of 1.8Mb (<-- that's what you get with "community run" projects). For last 6 days download speeds have been as bad as 33kbps. Wired broadband is now rolled down here, so am considering the likes of Cinergi, or alternatively PermaNet for fixed wireless.

[raymoll]

So Ive signed up for the basic Business package, big surprise their perception of speed and contention ratio's are a little different fom mine. I expected faster in brief. Be cautious to anyone else considering regional, I'll give it another week and see how it fairs for me.