poster wrote:
> On 10 Aug 2005 21:13, John Daragon <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>
>>Broadbandnow are offering an uncontended 512kbps ADSL connection for
>>£121 a month, which is the cheapest I've seen.
>
>
> What exactly do you expect to do with it, given the significant cost,
> and from 30+ months use of contended services, without seeing major or
> minor speed problems, what do expect from an uncontended service ?
20 channels of G.729 voice over an IAX2 trunk, as it happens! We can't
get SDSL to the site, so the limiting factor is the 256kbps to the exchange.
> 121 quid could pay for 3 or 4 lines (depending on whether business or
> residential accounts with BT) each with 2000 kbps connections ... and
> no strict limits, using Plus.Net...
Yep, but we really can't afford random increases in latency, so 1:1 is
pretty important.
>
> If you wanted say 400 GB a month you could get 3 lines / 3 accounts with
> Metronet on PayGoS2000 each having included traffic of 150 GB... Use
> each link for just 10 days and you are paying about the same but at
> connections are double the speed :-) Peter M.
Alas, this is ADSL, so despite the headline speed of the connection,
everything looks like 256kbps if your needs are symmetrical.
jd
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