8Mb ADSL Connection

Oh man! Ad-blocking software has been detected! :'(

This website is run by the community, for the community... and it needs advertisements in order to keep running. Blocking our ads means your killing our stats!
Please disable your ad-block, or become a premium member to hide all advertisements and this notice.

Maybe I have lost the plot but check it out here only bad thing is it aint available in Aberdeen yet so Fergal we need to make a stand mate...

 

Oh man! Ad-blocking software has been detected! :'(

This website is run by the community, for the community... and it needs advertisements in order to keep running. Blocking our ads means your killing our stats!
Please disable your ad-block, or become a premium member to hide all advertisements and this notice.

Tells me:

 

I swear it didnt say that when I last looked...must not like me! Or is that your area?

 

I wonder how much it costs though.

 

these have been available on Easynet for like, 3 years

another consumer orientaded ad playing on the general publics lack of information
nothing is new about this, ADSL can handle higher than this anyway
its 39.99 a month but 33:1 contention!!!!!


im looking to move to a Bulldot @ctive packages
4MB down, 400kb up, phone line (no need for BT one), free calls to bulldog users etc, 40 quid a month!
apparantly, service is still in testing but they have already started to advertise
looks promising

 

Thats my area , using the postcode search. How else would it know?

 

Just how fast does anyone need their porn to be?

 

as fast as possible mate... but who says we will be using it for that? :

 

LOL@Luton

When I want it I want it NOW. The faster the better.

 

8Mbps? That's nothing. Try 20Mbps...

 

ive already noted my interest noel. ill settle for 2MB/s at the mo

 

no probs Fergal...and Gaz I have read about ADSL+2...but until it arrives and the prices are right...I will settle for my 1Mbps till 8Mbps arrives in Aberdeen like Fergal...

 

Like a million other Australian homes ours can't get ADSL So threads like this one really make me feel disadvantaged.

It is not because I am too far away from the exachange nor is it that the exchange is not ADSL enabled because it is SDLAM'ed up with available port as well. The problem for most of us is that Telstra (our main Telco) have been installing RIMs (Remote Integrated Multiplexers). These roadside green boxes are connected to the the exachange by fibre, which is good and in turn the houses are connected to them by copper. However, these RIMs are a pair gain technology and as such prohibit ADSL unless they have been modified with a CMUX otherwise known as a Minimux. We have been waiting three years for ours to be upgraded and we believe it may happen in May this year. The last date for modification was November 2004 but that has been and gone

Because of the RIM and it's pair gain limitations, I can only ever achieve a 28K dial up

ISDN is possible but it costs a fortune here in comparison to ADSL.

Wireless, like the iBurst systems are only just starting to arrive on the Gold Coast but having spoken with multiple ISPs and having been part of the Broadening Broadband Project with The Gold Coast City Council, I don't hold out much hope because of the terrain where we live. We live in the middle of a forrest, which is surrounded by hills and mountains.

I want ADSL so bad it hurts

Pete

 

Phoenix can you please explain what 33:1 contention means, I haven't heard of contention before

Cheers,

Pete

 

good description can be had over at ADSL Guide
gets to the point re ADSL contention
and although BT make sure you wont drop to your contended level, you still drop quite a bit at busy times, and they are under no obligation to keep your service above its contended value, lame huh
33:1 is indeed less than the 50:1 BT provide, but im guessing with 8mb they will be a lot more willing to let service slip than with 512k (they pay for bandwidth remember)

 

20Mb?
HA!
im moving to Hong Kong!
http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/global/asiapac/news/2005/pr_02-01.html?CMP=ILC-001

 

1Gbps by June 2005, count me in!

Inspired analogy that is! Methinks someone's got an axe to grind...

 

And how much does this all costs, gang? You want it...you'll have to pay for it (and I admit, I didn't review the thread so if money was mentioned, I missed it).

 

the 8MB in the UK is 39.99 (about 80 USD, only slightly more than what we currently pay for 1MB)
the 100mb and 1000mb in hong kong is equally comparatitive
as is the 20MB in Europe (about 39.99 Euros, so LESS than 80 USD) (i think)