[ILUG] Re: [ILUG-Social] broadband interviews on RTE

[Declan de Lacy Murphy]

It took me 2:10 seconds on dial up to connect and receive 3 emails that were about 5 lines long each - If I do 
that once per hour and it costs (.03*3*1.27=11.43) 11 cents each time then that costs me ?1.37 per day during 
peak time to pick up my mail once per hour. In practice it costs a lot more than that because I often get 
emails with attachments that could take 3/4 minutes to get in, and I tend to check the stats for my web page 
when I go on, and maybe to take a quick look at something aswell. The cost can really mount up. Now if that 
isn't a good reason for a permanent connection I don't know what is. 

Declan


27/03/02 13:11:32, "Ronny B." <nny at purehatred.org> wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 12:38:01PM +0000, Kae Verens wrote:
>> According to some local talks (I have no official references), the 
>> government apparently plans on making "broadband" (whatever definition 
>> is current) widely available within five years. Apparently, also, a lot 
>> of towns, major and minor, already have the cables laid.
>Eircon will ring you up and tell you about this wonderful new "broadband"
>thing if they haven't already. The trouble is that their definition of it
>is "ISDN".Both I and others have had some funny conversations with the
>callmonkeys at Eircon ;)
>
>> Not that I'm really knowledgeable about this (obvious), but wouldn't a 
>> sudden surge in broadband availablity ruin a few Internet hosting 
>> companies? ie: if people hosted from home, why pay for other people to 
>> do it?
>Some people only need e-mail access, actually. I heard rumours of this,
>anyway. Now excuse me; it's patchday in Dark Age of Camelot :/
>
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