Re: [ILUG] Re: Telecom?

From: John McCormac (jmcc at domain hackwatch.com)
Date: Mon 19 Apr 1999 - 23:48:04 IST


Vincent Murphy wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 06:03:55PM +0100, Shane Dempsey wrote:
> > Well how does it compare to ISDN?
>
> it's a hell of a lot faster and more importantly it's up all the time.
>
> > Price wise I mean. I can't see businesses getting ISDN in if they can get
> > those kinds of speeds. Are you sure that it is a who e Mb/s upload , I
> > thought that it was about half that . I could be wrong though..
>
> we won't know about price until they tell us, but it works over a
> bog-standard phone line, so it has to be as reasonable as ISDN really,
> insofar as the pricing of ISDN is reasonable. i think the line rental (~20)
> for ISDN is too much.
>
> the speed is dependant on the provider. i think there's a site at adsl.com.

www.adsl.tinet.ie is back up again - see how cDc inspired TE's website
design ;-)

Regards...jmcc

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