[ILUG] Esat Clear "flat rate" costs

[Padraig Brady]

That's right!
they were hacked by some asian crowd
if I remember.
Also looks like there having major
problems this week also because of
the MCI worldcom network problems.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: 'Juan Flynn' [mailto:jjjuan at maths.tcd.ie]
> Sent: 17 August 1999 17:37
> To: Padraig Brady
> Subject: Re: [ILUG] Esat Clear "flat rate" costs
> 
> 
> * Padraig Brady (Padraig.Brady at digital.com) [990817 17:33] wrote:
> > > * Padraig Brady (Padraig.Brady at digital.com) [990817 17:26] wrote:
> > > > > * Padraig Brady (Padraig.Brady at digital.com) [990817 
> 16:59] wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > What would people think would the max num of people
> > > > > > that could share a 56K connection just for moderate
> > > > > > email use? 40?
> > > > > 
> > > > > I've had over 100 hanging off a 14.4k line. Email only and I
> > > > > had to limit the incoming attachment size to 256k or so.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Juan
> > > > 
> > > > 100 wow!
> > > > 400 on 56K line with attachments limited to 256K
> > > > or more realistically 100 with attachments limited to 2M ?
> > > > sounds good.
> > > 
> > > Don't do it :-) !!
> > > 
> > > IT was a net-on-a-shoestring for 2 years until finally 
> when the ISP
> > > went offline for a week or so the management decided that Internet
> > > was worth paying for and I've put in a 128K line from 
> Esat. But yeah,
> > > I'd happily hang heaps of users off a 56K modem so long 
> as it was just
> > > for mail. 
> > > 
> > > Juan
> > 
> > Offline for a week!!!!!!!!
> > What the hell sort of an ISP was it.
> > Does anyone know if any uptime stats
> > exist for the main ISPs?
> 
> 
> It was Connect Ireland. They got 'hacked'...
> 
> 
> Nice bunch of guys mind you, but Esat are the oldest and most
> professional that I've had dealings with.
> 
> Juan
>