[ILUG] Internet in Ireland

[Conor Daly]

On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 03:59:45PM +0000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
francois maillard thought:
> Thank you all,
>  > Welcome to Ireland. You'll find the beer nice, and the cities ugly
> I wouldn't have dared saying so... but that's quite realistic!
> Thanks for the link on comparative prices, ut just misses smarttelecom but 
> that's allright all the same.
>  > have a fixed IP with netsource, that gives me 2mbit down and 128 up,
> > very bad compared to france.
> I was beginning to beeing used to 20mbit down, 4up, plus free cable TV and 
> telephone... arglhh!!!!!!

Bienvenue en Irlande Francois!

If you want cable TV as well, you might consider NTL.  They will provide
cable TV and 1Mbit broadband for EUR45 per month and no phone line rental
to pay.  You can add VoIP phone service {from a different provider} for
not much more.  There is at least one VoIP provider on this list.

NTL broadband do not provide static IP addresses but their FAQ says:

	"We do not provide static IP addresses but you will find that they
	rarely change."

Whether this will continue as their broadband market grows I cannot say.
I've had the same IP address for the last 6 months and a DNS entry at
dyndns.org for my cod.homelinux.org domain...

Conor
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Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net>

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