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Higher DSL on the way from eircom

Mar 15th, 2005   2:34 pm

Eircom have announced higher download speeds for their retail and wholesale ADSL/RADSL offerings. Basically:
512Kbps > 1Mbps RADSL
512Kbps > 2Mbps ADSL
1 > 3Mbps
2 > 4Mbps

There has been no mention of caps which a sane person can presume will be increased. Nor has there been any mention of upload speeds increasing (currently 128Kbps for RADSL users and 256Kbps for ADSL users).

While the download speed is welcome, I’d much prefer the upload speed to be raised, and for interleaving to be turned off. So hopefully even more intense competition (you think it’s coincidence that Smart Telecom’s announcement to enter into the DSL market with an entry 2Mb product preceded eircom’s announcement by only a few weeks?) will finally deliver some value for money. But what of the dire state of the phone line network?

eircom Press Release
IrelandOffline’s response

Clare fail against Galway

Mar 15th, 2005   1:08 pm

Not a good weekend for Clare, who have put in yet another poor performance, this time against Galway. Daithi O’Connell’s last minute goal undeservedly gave Clare a respectable score line, of which not much was from play. Serious gaps existed in the midfield, with Colin Lynch doing the best he could. Worryingly no changes were made at half time, which seemed to confuse and irate many fans in the stands.

What next? Well after a poor performance against Laois, Dublin and Galway, it’s hard to say. It’s early days yet, in the season, but drastic improvements are needed for the final games of the league. Time will tell, as we’re set to take on All Ireland semi-finalists and Munster champions in the next few games.

Skype Outage

Mar 11th, 2005   2:43 pm

So I’ve had a couple of weird issues with Skype in the past, but later revisions of the software seemed to have solved all those. All in all, it’s great and has hugely reduced my eircom phone bill (which now only has a handful of short calls every month, not 50-100 euro worth!!

This morning, however, there seems to be an outage preventing many users from logging in. Those reporting it first weren’t believed, but as more users started reporting, it became obvious something was up. Discussion is continuing on this thread

Good start to the NHL for the Banner?

Feb 20th, 2005   6:41 pm

Clare 1-16 Laois 2-11

The good: we won. The bad: just about. 66th minute goal from Clare saved them. Laois fans presumably felt robbed. “Early days” yet, but if any serious attempt is to be made in the league this year, then this was a shocking attempt to start that effort. Young blood on the field, some displaying quite a bit of potential including Darragh Clancy and Declan O’Rourke. It’d be nice to see a more cohesive effort including these newer players… but at what expense?

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