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  • 16-11-2001 6:33pm
    #1
    tmaher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭


    Yup, you guys are getting screwed!! I pay $39 a month for all the "Broadband" internet I want 24/7/365. I have a 640k download and 128k upload.

    My suggestion to you guys is this. Start your own damn ISP!!

    It's easy, it's cheap, and no-one can stop you from doing it!!

    Go get em'!!


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    bkehoe
    Registered Users Posts: 2,153 ✭✭✭bkehoe


    ...wonders where cheap came from. ;) Well, it probably is cheap to start an isp, but that doesn't help anyone paying to dial in to it, and LLU is a joke at the moment.


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    tmaher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭tmaher


    Dialing in is not the big deal... at least here in the US... The phone calls are free as long as it's a local number. You just need a local gateway. And a gateway is simple to set up. All you need is to get connected to the backbone with a couple of good servers, set-up a radius server for authentication, and your set. It really IS that easy. We ( me and a friend) had our own AOL like dial-up ISP a few years back. We sold unlimited access for $10 a month. Then, of course broadband came around and it didn't matter how cheap you were, everyone wanted more speed. I can't blame them... I went with another ISP myself lol. You guys can completely eliminate whoever is selling it to you now. All it takes is a couple of tech savvy people.


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    chernobyl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,682 ✭✭✭chernobyl


    tmaher you know nothing about the situation here.
    it would be impossible to do that here (as of now)


    *chernobyl returns to "blacking out"


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    bkehoe
    Registered Users Posts: 2,153 ✭✭✭bkehoe


    You should understand that it's not the ISPs we're unhappy with, but the phone company that owns 99.999% of all the lines, which has barely done any LLU, and who's adsl product was blocked because of overpricing on the reselling of bitstream & their own consumer products. At the monent 1p per minute is the cheapest calls possible to ISPs, and thats only at off peak times.


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    Baz_
    Registered Users Posts: 2,660 ✭✭✭Baz_


    yeah tmaher thanks for the support and everything, but it is nothing like America over in Ireland. telecommunications are regulated which means that you cant just start up a business at the click of your fingers, and so the companies that are out there now are pretty much our only hopes, its ****, its something weve had to live with forever, but hopefully after today things will start to change. I'm not very hopeful that todays action will achieve much but what I am hoping is that as someone else said it will add to the cumulative demonstrations, and one day the message will be driven home.


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