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Announcements => News Articles => Topic started by: tickmike on February 13, 2016, 11:07:29 PM
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Isle of Skye Broadband.
This will be useful for some :) .
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-35550443
http://northskyebroadband.com/HD/about/
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Hmm . . . I wonder who? ::)
As the coverage is being planned for the north of the island, I don't think Heasta will be included. :( :-X
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Hmm . . . I wonder who? ::)
As the coverage is being planned for the north of the island, I don't think Heasta will be included. :( :-X
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Hmm . . . I wonder who? ::)
As the coverage is being planned for the north of the island, I don't think Heasta will be included. :( :-X
This may be closer - http://www.skyenet.co.uk/ - 'Coming soon to Heaste' which wikipedia assures me (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaste) is another name for Heasta - where he who must not be named lives ;) :-X :lol:
What's geographically possible give HWMNBN's actual location I can't say..
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Some people misspell the name of my village with a silent e on the end under the influence of the English word "haste" as that is indeed how it is pronounced if you drop the schwa after the /t/ (schwa, /ə/, is the vowel in the second syllable of butter, mother in English dialects that drop /r/).
You can also spell it Heast too, which is I think legitimate.
So there are three spellings, Heasta is the one I use and it's thankfully the one on the green sign below my house. Visible on Google street view in an earlier thread.
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I may be named, I give thee permission. ;D
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North Skye Broadband says that it is based in Sruthán (Anglicized as Struan, a fair phonetic spelling) on the West Side of the Island, about an hour's drive from me, bit less if you are really pushing it.
The Cuilthionn mountain ranges split the Island into two halves.
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The ill-named SkyeNet thing is up and running, shared slice of 5 Mbps, long distance wireless. One of my neighbours, Hugh, hosts a node on his patch. A good friend of mine, Rob, is a user, who has said little about is apart from 'doesn't work', when it doesn't work, and complains of slowness 'only 3.5 Mbps now'. But of course as a shared service people ought to have been able to work out the implications of that. For some reason, I think Rob is still using Virgin Media too (over BTW) which is there when the local effort doesn't work. There is a danger that such hardware will be utterly blasted to smithereens by the horrific weather in the (naturally) exposed position where it's parked. I parked my satellite dish (Sky) in a position where it is sheltered by the whole house when the weather is very bad and we're had no problems so far, even though it's the biggest one I could get (easily).
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I wouldn't have thought the weather will prove too much of an issue - there's been wireless kit deployed on the west coast of Lewis for over 10 years as part of the ill-fated "Connecting Communities" broadband scheme and most of that hasn't blown away. Pretty much all of it was intact even after the monster storm of 11/1/05 where winds hit 140+ knots. In fact ISTR a photo of the antenna (dish) still securely attached to the chimney of a house, unlike the roof which was completely gone :D
As an aside if HIE are funding it then IMHO then that's the kiss of death as pretty much everything HIE funds is on a fast track to failure....
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Mrs Weaver tells me that the SkyeNet thing was down for weeks, with neighbours complaining, including over new year, because of storm damage. I hear what Rizla is saying. The Western Isles people must have done a very good job.