Skyenet

Updates from Skyenet: the wireless community broadband network serving areas in and around Sleat.

09/05/2026

Our here on Beinn Mhialairigh. Plenty wild beasts on the hill today! Just making a few wee changes to our radio frequency use and installing a new VPN server for slightly easier remote management than the current setup.. apologies for the few seconds outage for Drumfearn and Heaste, we were just moving both radios onto new channels to free up some spectrum for HUBS, who have been going slow here for the last week.

29/04/2026

We don't often show the network mapped out, but here it is (minus Aird). Originally we had a mast on Rum, and we built the Loch Dougal mast (second bottom) to replace this, which is our only off-grid site. The network hasn't changed layout other than that since we built it in 2015. We plug into the West Highland Internet Exchange (WHIX) at the two most easterly points on the map, Mallaig and Beinn Mhialairigh; where we hand over to a company called HUBS who take us down to Edinburgh, to one of the big Internet Exchanges in Scotland. Just in case anyone is interested! 😄

20/04/2026

Caught a nice gap in the showers to install a new monitoring server for Skyenet at Beinn Mhialairigh, looking over Loch Hourn. Lovely up here!

25/02/2026

We are expecting some planned maintenance works upstream of us from 2200 this evening until 0600. We've just been told about the work. It might not cause too much disruption, but you can expect the service to be unstable after 10pm.

Photo from the Achnacloich mast site a couple weeks back

05/12/2025

I'm just going to have to put Drumfearn off for a few minutes.. in 10 minutes, while I install a new bit of kit up here at the mast

04/12/2025

I'm just looking into a problem affecting customers in Drumfearn today.

The power was also off in Drinan, and has just come back on, that won't have affected anyone as our batteries held out through that scheduled power outage.

Photo from the Uranan mast, on Glenbeag Internet, a few weeks ago.

30/11/2025

UPDATE: The network does seem to have returned to normal performance levels as of around 8pm last night. That should be everything sorted now (1st December).

UPDATE: the network came back online at around 0937, but is running slow. We're waiting for a response as to what the problem is from our suppliers, and will give timescales for the repair when we have that info.

UPDATE 11AM: There is a problem at Mallaig Telephone Exchange. We're still waiting for an estimate on when it will be fixed.

Hi again folks, the whole network is down, as are all networks on the network upstream of us (HUBS). We've reported the issue already. Hopefully they can get it fixed quickly.

Photo from yesterday late afternoon, working on AppleNet over at Toscaig, Applecross.

15/10/2025

Lovely day out here. Just checking the network over, make sure it's all ship shape.

Photo of Ord mast, which is next to the old TV mast.

14/10/2025

There was a powercut in Achnacloich-Tarskavaig last night and some customers are still offline after it. Just heading over now to have a look...

11/10/2025

That's the problem at Mhialairigh fixed, as of now. My pal Rowan from Corrary Farm Tree Nursery came along. I delivered some of their trees to our forest earlier on in the week.

Address

Sleat Community Trust
Ardvasar
IV458RS

Telephone

01471 844 773

Website

https://www.sleat.org.uk/project/skyenet-community-broadband/

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