Achill Online Internet Services assess the impact the National Broadband Scheme (NBS) may or may not have on Achill Island

Unfortunately I believe that this speed will never be achieved in reality and will remain a theoretical figure.

Furthermore at the present stage it is not possible to hook up a small company network to one of these plug-in-devices, so using it will be a one-man-show. Companies will not be able to use this technology to safely connect to the Internet using a central firewall or gateway. I also believe that the use of VPN will not be possible. The Company Commsoft sells the Dovado USB Mobile Broadband Router (UMR) , which supports a wide range of USB (3G/HSPA, CDMA, iBurst) modems, particularly those used by Irish providers: O2, Vodafone and Three.

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