High Speed Internet coverage

[David Banks]

Just a question (or two).
1. Is HSI (or whatever the preferred acronym may be) needed to get on to caithness.org
2. What sort of coverage of HSI is there in Caithness?
- just Wick and Thurso
- everybody within 100yards of a main road
- 90% - who is left out?
- 100%

Questions were partly spurred by earlier chat about caithness.org going off-line at 9:30pm, or thereabout.

If my questions show I'm technically 'challenged' in some way, than please enlighten.
Thanks/DB

[Vistravi]

It'll be issues with the caithness.org server. Also at night internet is capped as theres a bigger demand for it then.

[Metalattakk]

Just a question (or two).
1. Is HSI (or whatever the preferred acronym may be) needed to get on to caithness.org

No. You can access caithness.org with any internet connection - ADSLMax, Dial-up, even through GPRS on your 'phone. Caithness.org is a website, after all.


2. What sort of coverage of HSI is there in Caithness?
- just Wick and Thurso
- everybody within 100yards of a main road
- 90% - who is left out?
- 100%

Currently in Caithness the fastest speed you'll get is through the standard ADSLMax broadband connection - up to 8mbps. A usable internet connection can be obtained from any home within 7km (or so) of the nearest ADSLMax-enabled exchange.


It'll be issues with the caithness.org server. Also at night internet is capped as theres a bigger demand for it then.

Some people's internet connection is 'capped' more than others though, and certainly there are many who aren't capped (due to congestion or contention ratios) at all.

As with most things in life, you get what you pay for.

[David Banks]

Thank you
/DB