[ILUG] broadband access...

[John McCormac]

kevin lyda wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 01:52:36PM +0000, Paul Askins wrote:
> > Hmm, with a 400M a day limit on downloads, that fairly excludes iso images
> > doesn't it.  And even if you could download them, maybe start the download
> > just before 12 midnight, half a dozen in a month ad you'd have gone over
> > your limit.  Looks like, as with Eircom, the only one worth going for is
> > the more expensive option and that's way over priced for most people.
> 
> yeah, but at least educom have an excuse - increasing bandwidth involves
> a rocket launch.  eircom at worst needs to order an additional line or
> get more building space.

As far as I remember, Educom are just reselling the Hughes service or
some other service. As regards increasing bandwidth, it is just a case
of buying more transponder space rather than launching a new bird. I
think the costs are on the Astra site and work out at about e700K for a
big pipe. Where most of the satellite ISPs fail is on the terrestrial
internet connection. The best example of this kind of fscked up service 
at the moment seems to be the Europeonline service - these guys seem to
make Eircom look competent. 
 
Regards...jmcc
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