[ILUG] [OT] Cable Internet Access

[John McCormac]

Joe Desbonnet wrote:
> 
> I can't believe that Cablelink could possibly offer anything useful. They
> never have in the past and I doubt they ever will.  I bet it will come with
> a bundle load of snags (eg mandatory proxy, dynamic ip/RFC 1597 IPs, no
> servers allowed, no "support" for non-Windoze platorms, and a massive
> whopping 256kbps line liking their service to the outside world etc)

Some of the claims at the press conference last year regarding the
number of IPs assigned to each box were strange. I don't know if they
have been assigned enough IP space by RIPE so it may be that they will
implement some form of private net with everything proxied. I know a few
people on the test and I think that they had a real IP.

The 256k figure was mentioned as the customer bw. It was also supposed
to be duplex. The sever issue will be a sore one as it could
theoretically allow someone to run a decent local Q/Q2/Q3/TFC server
setup. Interestingly Cablelink is supposed to be rolling it out in the
Tallaght area first with the emphasis on businesss rather than domestic
usage. 

> Also notice that they have no launch date (not even an an approximate time
> frame). That means its still years in the future.

It doesn't give a specific date but it mentions next year. This is more
or less what they said at the press conference a year ago. The big
uncertainty is whether ADSL beats them to the punch. Now that they are
out from under TE/Irk'em's evil clutches they have no reason to be slow
about implementing the stuff other than the cable network being iffy.

In July, they said that they had completed the trials and that they
would initially be offering the service to commercial customers in the
Tallaght area and that the target group would be expanded after August
to include domestic customers. I'll believe it when I see it.


Regards...jmcc
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