Broadband - An issue ignored

[adamirer]

It's a political/economic WILL issue rather than a technology problem in the end and I am continuing to argue for re-nationalising this utility on this thread. Parties on the up, SF and GP want to do so at present.

Simply won't happen. I'll put it this way:
Fibre is the most important feature going forward. Fibre backhaul is needed to connect not only all the major urban centres, but all the middling and large towns (ie: 150 towns with pop of more than 1,500 people). That will give you tp class network - and thats already out there in many cases, owned by seperate companies

Developments in wi-fi, wireless, 3g etc will make the land line issue redundant, thats reallty what i'm saying. The 1,500+ towns will act as nodes for vodafone, o2, £, meteor,digiweb etc to get onto the internet - with your mobile being the connecting tool betwene pc/laptop and the internet, not the landline.

FTTH (fibre to the home) isn't being put in by developers or eircom on new homes, which is a big mistake. This only continues to push the end user towards mobile technology. MY previous post should make this clear, the landline is dying, the future with be wireless local networks using fibre to connect urban nodes/centres.

and the Government/Dempsey have been doing HUGE work in this area (MAN's, internation connectivity, fibre north/south. The landline issue will soon cease to be an issue.

[Ronanr]

FTTH (fibre to the home) isn't being put in by developers or eircom on new homes

Not quite true. Magnet have put in FTTH in several apartment developments in Dublin recently.

[drbob1972]

I think that might be another reason people are relucant to invest in wiring is that satellite technology will render obsolete underground lines anyway.

Satellite is Internet for boats. Fine if you are in the middle of the Atlantic, absolutely ************************ if you want reliable and fast Internet access and it certainly cannot be called broadband. Given that your net traffic has to travel from your dish to space to Luxembourg to the net and then back again, you will never be able to get anything that relies on low pingtimes to work. Gaming, MSN, VPN, VOIP all too laggy and no matter what the snakeoil salespeople in Sat companies lie about, it can never be comparable. Damn Einstein and his speed of light!

do you know if any of the providers of sat internet are offering accelerators also ? something like the juniper WX boxes (though these are at the enterprise level) could have a substancial improvement for many services. (btw VOIP via Sat is fine if done right)