On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 11:35:52AM +0000, lbedford at wbtsystems.com mentioned:
> > Also, the speeds Genesis are talking about would be available only within
> > 300 metres of the exchange, which is ridiculous.
> I'd still be much more interested in the outgoing bandwidth.. it's
> all fine and dandy to give everyone 45Mb, but Esat's line out of Ireland
> was 45Mb last I heard, and that's the biggest ISP in the country...
> Assuming they sell it to 10% of the current internet population in Ireland (150K
> last I heard), that's 15,000 people with the ability to download 45Mb... sounds
> a bit like all these cable companies in the UK where they say "You can have 2Mb
> download, but we only have 2Mb total bandwidth, so tough"...
The government is rolling out a lot of "around the country" bandwidth
too. Heh. Anyway, you'll be glad of the 45mbit downloads, when online.ie
have it setup that their public-maintained "fan sites" to be able to sell
films/TV episodes that they are are talking about.
Can't wait for the day that when I miss Sky's broadcast of Buffy the
Vampire slayer, that I can just boot up the PC, connect to a buffy fan
site on online.ie, and stream the episode I'm looking for, from RTE, for
50p or something. It'll kick ass.
Kate
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