Aberystwyth Live On-line

Communication, Contacts and On-Line Communities

• After a couple of requests I've set up an Aber Forum
• There's even a USENET News Group for Aberystwyth for the latest 'debate' and gossip!!!!
• #Aber Resources the home page for the Aber Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network
• Knowhere guide to Aber
• Twittering from Aberystwyth NEW
• Blogging about Aberystwyth in wordpress
• Abnib combines the blogs of a couple of dozen of so Aberystwyth Bloggers
• Aberystwyth members of the Stumbleupon network
• Aberystwyth: most dugg
• Aberystwyth members of the MySpace network
• Thousands (over 10,000) Flickr: Photos tagged with Aberystwyth on the Flickr photo sharing network
• Aberystwyth on YouTube
• See also the Genealogy Links on this page

Internet Access

• WiFi 'Centrino' HotSpots
• Joe's, even bigger, list of wireless wifi access points in Aber NEW
• Aberystwyth Town Library
• There are several BT 'Text & e-mail Payphone' boxes around town.
• Broadband Provision

Live !

• Aber WebCams
• See the information being displayed live on the departure screen on the platform of Aberystwyth train station
• Current Weather Conditions in Aberystwyth
• Flood warnings for the river Rheidol at Aberystwyth Checked every 15 minutes
• Flood warnings for the area around Dovey Junction NEW
• Current Weather at the near-by Aberporth buoy
• Current Weather around Snowdon
• 4 webcams around Snowdon
• Mid Wales live travel news from the BBC
• Current Weather around Trawsgoed

Radio Aberystwyth

• WiFi 'Centrino' HotSpots
• MST Radar Calculates wind speeds in the upper atmosphere by measuring the doppler shift of scattered radio waves
• Constitution Hill unmanned Radar Station (for Aberporth MOD firing range)
• Coverage Map for the Blaenplwyf Transmitter
• Television & Radio ITV / Channel 4 / BBC Analogue Transmitter Reception Information from Offcom
• The Digital UK's information about the Blaenplwyf Television Transmitter and its associated relays
• Information about the Digital Television Transmitters
• Radio Bronglais (Hospital)
• Mobile Phone Base Stations Note: you need to have zoomed in to '0---100' before the map shows the base stations
• Coverage for the BT / Cellnet / O2 Mobile Phone Network
• Coverage for the 'T-Mobile' Mobile Phone Network
• Coverage for the Orange Mobile Phone Network
• Coverage for the Virgin Mobile Phone Network
• Coverage for the Vodaphone Mobile Phone Network
• Aberystwyth & District Amateur Radio Society
• Most of the Wireless Communications Infrastructure is provided by Arqiva
• Early in 2006 Blaenplwyf Transmitter added Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) to its output,
• In March 2010 Blaenplwyf Transmitter switched over from analogue to digital for it's TV output
• At this time there are no 'cable' services in Aberystwyth

Internet TV

If you're missing some television channels during or since the digital switchover and your have broadband internet the some of the shows can be found there

Programing from a Single Station

• BBC iPlayer
• ITV Player
• 4OD Channel 4
• Demand 5
• Sky Player

Programing from Multiple Stations

• ViewTV
• SeeSaw
• TV Catchup
• As well as cute cats and home made bloopers YouTube Shows hosts hundreds of professionally made programs from main stream TV.