is there a better option??

Sniipe · 28-01-2003 4:43pm #1

Hypethically, just for a project !!!

A group of students are housed in 2 apartment style buildings. Lets say they are unhappy with there current service provider. Lets say this company provide them with a dns server, 400K line which is transmitted to them from a college via radio, or whatever means and also provide service(if needed). Lets just say that the service they are providing is €20,000 per year. Is there a better option?

Now I have heard that eircom are offering 512K for €54 per month. What would happen if the apartments wanted 4 of these lines? Currently, lets say, the apartments have a 100meg switch and connections to all the rooms. How would the service operate? Is it just a case of buying 4 pc's and putting an adsl modem into them, putting on the software on them to redistribute the line to the students who only have ethernet cards???

Or is there a better company that can offer all of the services of the origional one but cheaper and at a better speed?

Or would they be better off staying where they are?

Remember this is all hypo ;-)

THX

Meh · 28-01-2003 4:59pm

Couple of problems:

Eircom's ToS will undoubtedly forbid you from sharing their connection like this.
load balancing the traffic across 4 adsl lines will be a major headache to set up.
There will be a 4 gig download cap on each line -- 16 gigs download limit in total. This could be a problem if you have a lot of users

You would be better off looking at Eircom's 1-meg enhanced package (~€190 p.m.), which is cheaper, has no download limit and allows connection sharing. And it's available now -- not vapourware like the €54 product.

http://www.adsl.ie

Sniipe · 28-01-2003 5:08pm

i-stream sounds very good. But lets just say that the apartments are in some place like dundalk. Hypothethically speaking of course!

At present, it is available within certain Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Kerry exchange areas

Dustaz · 28-01-2003 5:19pm

Jesus, stop with the riddles and just ring 1800 503 303 and ask whether you can get a 1meg enhanced line into your appts ffs

santalives · 28-01-2003 5:33pm

Hypothethically if you just told us you're exact situation maybe we could give you a better answer, of course after you ring 1800 503 303

Sniipe · 28-01-2003 5:53pm

Well I rang them up (hypo..... ahh ) anyway. They don't have dundalk in there range, but they did say that they may have in march (but they are not sure). Our contract renewal is coming up soon so I want other options.

They went on to say that we could purchase a router and have isdn. Apparently we can get 64K each (I couldn't understand this part)

They reckon i-stream won't be here till july. The (ahem) project is for connection now.

spongebob · 28-01-2003 6:13pm

once your one year contract is up, you can get out at the end of a given quarter with no penalties.

next window may be end march, check your bills.

next window after that, end of june

M

santalives · 29-01-2003 2:58pm

did you check with esat about their dsl i think that may be available in your area

Sniipe · 29-01-2003 4:59pm

esat? isn't that digiweb? I think they are expensive. On a diff topic is boards hosted by digiweb? Ip's are similar!

Dustaz · 29-01-2003 9:32pm

Originally posted by Sniipe
esat? isn't that digiweb? I think they are expensive. On a diff topic is boards hosted by digiweb? Ip's are similar!

No, no and no

Esat are EsatBT and their DSL is the same price as eircoms current offering.

Boards is hosted in erm, not sure. Their provider is Nevada Telecom i think.

Sniipe · 30-01-2003 11:59am

Thx dustaz, will ring them later on 2day so!

is there a better option??

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