Another new website we’ve been working on is for Capture Gallery, a fine art photography gallery that’s scheduled to open in Sligo within the next few weeks. Capture is the latest project of Jonathan Hill (also behind Infacta and Polldaddy) who recently opened the Shooting Stars sports photography business on High Street. The website is a monochrome, minimalist site designed to focus attention on the photography it displays — you can check it out fully when the gallery opens towards the end of the month. The site is now live and the gallery will be open to the public from June 15th.

Imagine advertise their Wimax product on their website as “fast reliable broadband with real speeds.” Their tagline is “Faster, Better, Cheaper” but it appears that the jury is still very much out on their claim. A long thread on Boards.ie has few positive comments with the concensus being that the overall service is flakey, speeds are nothing like advertised and customer service poor.

Typical Wimax Speed Test

There are a number of user posted speed tests, with most showing download speeds of 2 — 3 Mb/s on a 7Mb subscription. Ping times are similarly poor. For a lot of people, the service appears to be no better than a mobile 3g connection.

If you’re an Imagine subscriber based in Sligo, it’d be interesting to hear your local experiences of Imagines Wimax product. It looks like it’ll take some time to get the service up on its feet properly but at the moment it doesn’t look it would be wise to switch over from your current providers just yet. I’m sure that time will tell.