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UPC vs Eircom 8Mbs are Eircom for real?
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Once you run out of drive letters you can start mounting your drives in folders
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Erm...just speaking generally...I don't mean this is what I do.
As for storage....hard disk drives are very cheap these days. My pc is almost out of alphabetical letters for the drive names...I wonder what happens after Drive Z:0 -
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or do what i did and buy a decent sized nas.
you can get 7 or 8 drive nas's for a few hundred quid and fill them full of 2tb drives in raid5 and you've got over 10tb of storage at your disposal.
Bought a nice LaCie a year or so ago and then wished I had of bought a nice NAS afterwards!!
Althought there was quite a significant price difference between a eSATA HD and a NAS HD. How much did you pay for yours mate'?0 -
well, i went a bit extreme and bought a thecus n7700 which is a 7 bay jobbie. i currently have 4x 1.5tb disks in it which (using RAID5) gives me around 4tb of storage, although i'm using some of that for iSCSI at the moment.
the thing about getting a multi disk nas is that you still need to have some kind of backup solution in place to do it properly.
raid5 is going to protect you from a single disk failure, but that's not the only way to break your nas and if you lose it, it's all gone then, whereas if you'd lost one disk out of 4 or 5 disks, you'll only lose the data on that disk and still have the rest.
my next step is to buy a 4 bay esata enclosure and put 2x 2tb disks in that (jbod) to backup what i have now on the nas and have nsync run every night to keep an up to date copy and then stick 3 more 1.5tb disks in the nas and go from there and maybe add another 2tb disk.
it's never ending really.
one thing i would say though is don't go for a thecus nas if you do, you'd be much better off with a synology nas, they are heaps better. even the single drive synology nas's have better features than my thecus. i only went for it when i did because of a special offer on it at the time, but if i'd had a chance to compare the OS's and features running on them I'd have gone straight for a synology.
anyway, kinda gone off topic a bit. 0 -
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but it's not widespread enough to be considered a realistic option for most people. you can get 100mbps in some parts of london too, but it's not available to the vast majority of people, much the same as 100mbps fibre in france, but unlike UPC in the netherlands and elsewhere (even ireland) where they are major players.WillieFlynn wrote: »Go to Paris and some other French cities. They have put fiber into many buildings giving 100Mb up & down for 30 euro per month (inc. TV and phone).
The modems they use are 1Gb, but currently they limit packages to 100Mb.
france has a very high uptake of broadband, but well over 90% of it is ADSL users, so if you take into account the cable and other broadband operators, fibre actually only covers a tiny fraction of the population.
and even if you did include the french FTTH, UPC is still offering the fastest consumer broadband in europe at 120mbps. faster uploads are nice, but when you're talking about broadband speeds, download speed is the main selling point.
it's interesting though whilst i was reading about it that all the ISP's in france got rid of any download limits or FUP's long ago. plenty of people here would have you believe that truly unlimited consumer broadband not a sustainable business model. 0 -
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On Cable, I don't think it's really possible.
Downstream link (downloads) can use any 8MHz channel from 110MHz to over 900MHz. DOCSIS 3.0 can "bond" up to five channels giving up to 125Mbps download. DVB-c Transport stream multplexes shared channels
Upstream can use 0.8, 1.6, 3.2 or 6.4MHz time shared (TDMA) upload. There is only 5MHz to 65MHz band on Euro system or 15MHz to 45MHz on other systems. That's roughly 9 x 6.4Mhz channels. Upstream uses less intense coding (lower data rate for same symbol rate) than down stream, so much less data in the 9 channels (or 18 x 3.2MHz channel).
Downstream could have 70 to 100 channels if there was no TV. Obviously TV exists also (You can see why Analogue at 8MHz per channel is doomed compared with Digital's 20 channels in 8MHz possible using MPEG4 and 256QAM).
So typically 8:1 to 15:1 is ratio of Downstream:Upstream on any practical Cable Broadband system. This suits average usuage.
DSL can in theory vary ratio of downstream:upstream from 16:1 to 1:1 (SDSL) to 1:16, but getting a non LLU supplier to do it is near impossible. Eircom wholesale, Magnet and Digiweb/Smart can do SDSL, but it's a much more expensive product. Also 8M down and 512K up may be typically 3M + 3M as SDSL at typical distance on 24Mbps ADSL2+ LLU exchange. You really don't want SDSL on regular old ADSL exchange.
You can get Microwave 20Mbps + 20Mbps and fibre 100Mbps + 100Mbps products. These are seriously expensive, but of course have decent "SLA" and probably no contention, congestion or cap.
DSL, Metro and Cable Broadband can be used by business, but they are technologies developed for the Domestic mass Market. Not Hosting Web Servers, inter-office high speed VPN & etc.
Just to say it to you, HostIreland.com have just announced their broadband product which starts off at 16meg upstream and downstream for €99/year. Wouldn't say that's much... Have a look and tell them Conor sent ya 0 -
€99 a month.Just to say it to you, HostIreland.com have just announced their broadband product which starts off at 16meg upstream and downstream for €99/year. Wouldn't say that's much... Have a look and tell them Conor sent ya
No indication of contention. Licensed or 5.8MHz registered licence free?
One Three Rock mast for half of Dublin?
http://stresa.hostireland.com/broadband.html0 -
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Unregistered. wrote: »Obviously, neither of you told them Conor sent ya
I would have if it was €99 per year.:)0 -
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Just to say it to you, HostIreland.com have just announced their broadband product which starts off at 16meg upstream and downstream for €99/year. Wouldn't say that's much... Have a look and tell them Conor sent ya
Please don't pimp business like this again, in addition if you are going to post atleast have the decency to post the CORRECT information0 -
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See http://www.techtir.ie/comms/dsl-limits for explanation
On ADSL 8Mbps is the max speed beside the exchange.
On ADSL2+ 24Mbps is the max speed beside the exchange.
The more people in a bundle of telephone wires that use DSL and the more wires in the bundle (under street or fat "rope" between poles) the more crosstalk and slower.
The longer or noisier the cable, the slower it must be.0
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