[ILUG] Bandwidth/Internet use in Ireland

[lbedford at wbtsystems.com]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 11:51:11AM +0000, John P. Looney wrote:
> 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.
Oh, I'll be glad of the bandwidth.. I can't be the only person who
ftp installs his home machine (now that I can just start the install
at 9 p.m. and leave it going overnight.. wake up the next
morning and finish the config... ah debian :))

But one thing I have found, use of the internet changes completely when
you're not paying by the minute. I know it sounds obvious, but I use
Dublin bus timetables on the web now, etc etc. Any info that I want
I get from the web. I don't have to keep a huge offline collection of pages
that I want to see.. (I have fulltime net access in work, and as soon
as I get home I have it there too).

It's going to be one of them there paradigm shifts when the rest of the population
has this kind of connectivity and information available to them.

L.
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