The biggest benefit of this would be to give tourists access to use Google maps/navigation. If the bandwidth is enough to allow that then its worth while. If not, they need to increase the bandwidth…

This is awesome

Since when has that plaza across from The Oak called Barnardo Square?

Well it is free:-)

This is great, I’m sure it’ll be useful to many but why is a pyjama girl one of the “characters” on the plaques? Am fairly sure we could do better. *types while in pyjamas (indoors)*

I arrived in terminal 2 Dublin airport August 2012 and was delighted that free wifi was available. As I didn’t have an Irish SIM card, I couldn’t have contacted anyone (like my family to tell them we had arrived an hour early) had it not been for free wifi. I think it’s great, even if its not that speedy. I live in the 3rd world, so am very used to slow wifi. Something is better than nothing!

Good to see.

Would be very interested in seeing how many sign up for the deluxe. €8 a month? Tis craziness.

The Junkies will make a killing robbing all the phones and tablets.

Great initiative, but 512kb?…seriously….

Like in the pic in the article, but should read “Warning this Internet may stop at any time” :)

I take it torrenting will be blocked then :)

Look at all the dubs complaining about the free wifi speeds. Lol. Its fast enough for a free service and will be useful for tourists. Take take take and never satisfied are some people.

Better just to search for BitBuzz in Dublin City Centre! It’s available in most City Centre pubs even standing outside the buildings! And most importantly IT’S FREE!

On second look, I notice that the screw faces are visible on the mosaic in the image above. It looks like it was put up by someone who has no clue about these things. It would be very simple to conceal the screw fixings… This is the minimum quality that should be acceptable for installing items in any location in Ireland… Sad that the initial effort was put in but the finished detail is so poor.

Why charge. It’s an embarrassment that we are still charging for wifi – Dublin airport a prime example.

Free wifi can be funded by product placement / advertisement.

Free wifi, as is available is so many modern cities around Europe, simply boost revenue for the local area.
Option to have push notification from local business is as easy option – ‘next 10 people into shop X get 20% off,

Wifi in the city is definitely a step in the right direction – charging for it just makes those steps all the more slower

512kb is not dialup speed 56k is dial up speed. However I reckon you wont even get 512kb download as you will be sharing that bandwidth with all other devices connected to the same access point. I doubht they can guarantee 512kb for each connected device

But close to unusable…put some ads in the free version or limited to 30 mins but provide at least 3mbps.

This is actually crap. I don’t appreciate the defender comments for how crap this is either as there are many free wifi spots in US and they are 3mb minimum download and almost always 3mb up. It’s only there to get you to purchase the premium packages and sick you in. For people who want something free this will just be annoying. .512mb is pretty much redundant and you can’t use a lot of apps on it, I know case I make them. This is more an article about how DCC have allowed a Spanish company to setup stall in Dublin and fleece tourists.

It’s a shame it took them 5 years to roll this out – the only reason being a small interest group of Wifi companies. Does a company that employs less than 100 people count for more than a tourist industry not to mention business in general.

This is available all over Tblisi and it left a great impression with me and my fellow travellers. I’ve also seen it in many tourist spots in other cities. We should have this rolled out to out of Dublin sites like the Rock of Cashel and the Cliffs of Mourne, Glenveagh. It’s such a cheap way of advertising – surely now is the time to do this with the Gathering this year!

Free is great, but it usually comes at a price! Just a samplle of errro messages I got this morning. Service Temporarily Unavailable – The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later. System error.The error will be resolved as soon as possible. Sorry for the inconvenience.

You don’t need to use that slow wifi go to any McDonalds Starbucks or hotel St Stephens sc just stand outside and boom free wifi with good speeds

512kb is pretty much unusable for most apps. This is a waste is time. You can already get 2gb over 3G. If Dublin really wants to stand out we would be putting high speed wifi for free all over the city centre.

512kb is laughable.. I get 2gb over my 3G (which is unlimited anyway) in the city centre and if I logged into bitbuzzz then that doubles.. Most places offer 20-60 mins free bitbuzz browsing time too.. The whole concept is a joke 512kb is dial-up speed, talk about going backwards.!

What is the internet cafe owners opinion on this? Surely they will loose out on major business now??

the idea for those signs is suspiciously exactly alike the minipops from flipflopflyin