Get a cable modem, go to jail (1999)

Re:Get a cable modem, go to jail (1999) by rsynnott on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @09:14AM (#37391173)

So the theory is that they'll roll it out to 569,000 premises which are considered unlikely to be connected to fibre via the commercial providers; it's fairly extensive. In principle, it should go virtually everywhere that the commercial providers don't. We'll see how it works out in practice, of course. They're at about 150k premises 'passed' (ie they can be connected on demand); of these 45k are actually connected.

EDIT: Actually, from context they may be talking about a prior rollout. But the idea's the same.

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Re:Get a cable modem, go to jail (1999) by CalRobert on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @02:26PM (#37395781)

Rob!!! It's been a while. Hope you're doing well. I was referring to this (from 2018) for the 300k number - https://www.openeir.ie/open-eir-passes-170k-rural-homes-busi...

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Re:Get a cable modem, go to jail (1999) by rsynnott on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @04:54PM (#37397610)

Oh, small world!

Yeah, this was OpenEir (which is now just Eir’s standard commercial offering, though I think the rural buildout was subsidised). I was thinking of NBI, a separate network which is supposed to fill in what OpenEir didn’t.

Meanwhile I’m on coax; that’s the price you pay to live in the city center. (For whatever reason, Dublin city center tends to be behind on this stuff; my old apartment, beside Trinity, didn’t even get _VDSL_ until 2016 or so).

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