[Gllug] [ot] recommend adsl

Doug Winter doug at pigeonhold.com
Wed Apr 9 15:48:37 UTC 2003


On Wed 09 Apr Tethys wrote:
> >Who do amazingly cheap leased lines in London.  I've got a quote here
> >for a 2Mbps line for =A31,500 install and =A3450/month.
> 
> That'll be 1500 install if you already have fibre in the building.
> Otherwise it'll probably be 4250 (these are standard prices, so
> I'd expect them to be pretty consistent across ISPs). Does the
> 450/month cover just line rental or does it include bandwidth as
> well? If it's the latter, then it's pretty competitive...

Doesn't say anything about fibre in the building on the quote, and he
didn't ask me whether we did or not.  You could be right though, mebbe
he checked elsewhere.

The £450/month covers bandwidth too.  Their higher bandwidth prices are
very tasty too.

> >Currently we're not contending at all on our SDSL line AFAICT, so the
> >SDSL is fine, but if more people start using it, the exponential-e
> >network will start looking quite good.
> 
> AFAIK, all SDSL is currently uncontended.

Ours is 5:1 alledgedly.

doug.

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