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What is a "dedicated copper solution"?

  • 26-02-2013 10:25pm
    #1
    ppshay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 322 ✭✭


    I've been priced a "dedicated copper solution" 2Mb Down / 2Mp Up @ €300 per month.

    How is this different from DSL at say the 24mb Down / 1Mb up DSL @ €24 from Smart or any of the other DSL products? Apart from guaranteed speeds...


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  • #2
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    Probably SDSL , you pay dearly for the upload speed of course. Get Digiweb Metro, much cheaper and faster than that.


  • #3
    PogMoThoin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    ppshay wrote: »
    I've been priced a "dedicated copper solution" 2Mb Down / 2Mp Up @ €300 per month.

    How is this different from DSL at say the 24mb Down / 1Mb up DSL @ €24 from Smart or any of the other DSL products? Apart from guaranteed speeds...

    Uncontended


  • #4
    EoghanConway
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 385 ✭✭EoghanConway


    ppshay wrote: »
    dedicated copper solution

    Perhaps a policeman or "bobby" stands watch over your connection 24/7 :)


  • #5
    ppshay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 322 ✭✭ppshay


    Sponge Bob wrote: »
    Probably SDSL , you pay dearly for the upload speed of course. Get Digiweb Metro, much cheaper and faster than that.
    Actually got this installed this morning. 30mb/3mb. Getting 2 - 7mbps down and 300kbps - 1.25mbps up.


  • #6
    ppshay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 322 ✭✭ppshay


    PogMoThoin wrote: »
    Uncontended
    Is 2mb uncontended better than 24mb contended?


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  • #7
    ppshay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 322 ✭✭ppshay


    Is it the contention issue that justifies the €200+ per month difference in cost? Is 2mb/2mb uncontended four or fives times better than 24mb/1mb contended?


  • #8
    Nonoperational
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭Nonoperational


    ppshay wrote: »
    Is 2mb uncontended better than 24mb contended?

    Nope. Contention itself isn't a problem if the network is managed properly.

    As more fibre backhaul comes on stream contention and congestion should become less of an issue.


  • #9
    PogMoThoin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    ppshay wrote: »
    Is it the contention issue that justifies the €200+ per month difference in cost? Is 2mb/2mb uncontended four or fives times better than 24mb/1mb contended?

    To a business that needs guaranteed upload speed, that 1mbit contended upload could easily be 100k in peak hours


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