Entries tagged with “mobile” from BroadBand Watch

Over the last few months I've been talking a lot about the mobile web in other places, however the reality in the Irish market isn't that attractive. While it may be fine to navigate the web from your phone if you're on your local wireless network ie. piggy backing off your dsl or similar, the costs of browsing the web using one of the operators maybe prohibitive.

Adrian Weckler's latest blog post mentions some of the cost involved and they are not nice!

The Register reports that users of 3 Ireland's broadband services have been getting a rough time.

The report confirms some of the issues that have been reported by users on Irish ISP Test, Boards.ie and elsewhere.

The kind of issues facing users are caused by ISPs using NAT for their network, instead of providing dynamic IPs or even fixed ones. This can lead to IP ranges being blacklisted