My boss Toby and his family bought a new house near Dromahair, with a lovely and dramatic view out the back. More importantly, even though you can’t see it in the picture, perched upon that faraway hill is a broadband mast … megabit envy.

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I want to make blog entries … I really, really want to, but I can’t even load the damned site with my dial-up connection. Having condensed my two phone lines to a single line (cost savings), the dial-up connection has gotten even slower, potentially due to a fault on the line. Perhaps there is a [...]

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Yeah, you read that right. I may have mentioned in a past post that I discovered a serial modem port on the back of my wireless router while dreaming of broadband. Apparently the port is a back-up if your broadband connection fails. Well, obviously if you don’t have any connection, the router would create one [...]

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I finally discovered one advantage of dial-up. We had a three hour power outage last night and I was still able to surf. Cordless phones don’t work. No mobile service reaches the house either. But a fully charged laptop and a phone line did the trick. I just discovered that I can hook an external [...]

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Hi Justin, Wish I had more definite news, but we are still trying to make progress with various parties to establish a transmitter in the Carrownagilty / Carrane Hill area. So far it has been difficult and painfully slow but we are trying. Will advise later on any progress. It’s not looking good for broadband [...]

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