September 2011

IrelandOffline Quarterly Report Q3 2011 The latest Irelandoffline Quarterly report, based as always on Ookla Netindex Data shows Broadband Speeds in Ireland are improving but only at a glacial rate in the last quarter and with a marginal relative drop in download speeds against our EU competitor countries. In Q3 2011 Ireland’s Position is as follows. Ireland is 72nd in the World for Upload Speeds and 24th out of 27 in the EU (79th in Q2 2011) Ireland is 45th in the World for Download Speeds and 23rd out of 27 in the EU (49th in Q2 2011) Ireland is...

IrelandOffline has performed a technical capacity analysis on total satellite broadband throughput metrics in recent weeks. This analysis was conducted once Hylas-1 and Ka-Sat went live. Hylas-1 and Ka-Sat between them more than quadrupled satellite “broadband” capacity in Ireland. IrelandOffline has come to the inescapable conclusion that the total capacity of all satellite broadband providers operating in Ireland is less than the backhaul available to the rather small Roscahill exchange in County Galway and indeed that of many small rural exchanges. Satellite is an ideal broadcast mechanism for television but owing to natural constraints it is not suitable for large...