Cork Broadband

A large mulitmillion euro project is underway to provide 15 towns in Cork with broadband internet access.

Cork County Council is currently completing a 16 million euro contract to construct 110 kms of fibre optic cable in 15 towns throughout the County of Cork.

The Network is now open for business and Magnum Opus have been appointed on an interim basis to manage the network on behalf of Cork County Council. Their local manager is Brendan O’Sullivan who can be contacted at 01 6114061

The following locations have been selected:

• Bantry
• Blarney
• Carrigaline
• Charleville
• Cobh
• Dunmanway
• Kanturk
• Kinsale
• Fermoy
• Mitchelstown
• Ringaskiddy
• Skibbereen
• Youghal
• Midleton
• Passage West

This is a great step towards providing the entire County of Cork with affordable, high speed internet.

For more information click here: Broadband Introduction in Cork

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The broadband speed advertised by different broadband providers and the actual speeds you get can vary dramatically from provider to provider. Most do give a max broadband speed and an average broadband speed.

However for those of us who want to see for ourselves the people at Blacknight have a handy tool for checking your real time speeds. The tool also allows you to check how good your broadband is for those all important VOIP calls. So even before you pick up the virtual receiver you can check whether or not it’s worth it.

Check out the tool here: Irish ISP speed test

For the record, with Clearwire Wireless at the moment I’m currently only getting:

• 43kB Download
• 47kB Upload

Check out the screen shots below:

VOIP Test

ISP Speed Test Summary

ISP Speed Summary

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