Eircom to roll out DSL in Sept.

[-FI-]Barra

when would it be available to the cork are would anyone know??and price of it??is the E51 and E71 price on that link r wot?

dahamsta

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">when would it be available to the cork are would anyone know??</font>

That's up to Eircom, ain't it?

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">and price of it??is the E51 and E71 price on that link r wot?</font>

Translates to between forty and sixty quid. Knowing Eircom, there'll be hidden charges too.

adam

dNC.Verifyor

Gives more details in todays Irish Times.

While a price has not yet been agreed, it is believed it will fall withing a range of £40-£60 a month.

Other telecoms have complained they cannot consider offering a DSL service until Eircom completes the process of unbundling the local loop - opening to competition that part of its netork between local exchanges and individual buildings. Recently, the ODTR, required Eircom to lower the price charged for each local loop by a third to 13.53 Euro.

Eircom is required to inform other telecoms operators of its DSL plans and pricing structures before offering its own services, and is understood to be at an advanced stage of that process. Once Eircom fixes a price, at least one other operator is expected to put forward a DSL service.

Although Worldwide the take up of DSl has been lower than expected and most smaller operators in those markets have ceased to offer DSL.

[-FI-]Barra

and what about this 1 gb limit was that rubbish or what?

Bard

The skeptic in me says "yeah yeah... September of what year???"... the optimist in me says "woohoo!"

Let's hope optimism is more justified come September (2001 )

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Thorbar

I advise everyone to go and bug blam about this in IRC its great fun.

Gunn4r

http://new.businessandfinance.ie/livenews.htm?a=101738

Gladiator

whats this about £50 1 gig limit and £100 for unlimited.
if thats the case i dont think ill be getting it.its allright for all those isdn guys who pay £200+ every 6 weeks, probably what their basing it on

TinCool

Whoop, flate rate ADSL Access, I'd pay anywhere up to 150 a month for that kind of access. conn'ed 24/7, set up your own ftp and websites and everything, sounds like fun to me.

Quorthon

God above,

to think that on the Chorus thread there was a debate about whether or not a 3 gig limit was sufficient? I would imagine that 1 gig a month would easily be achievable, even with just general use. Thats just 30mb+/- per day. A few hrs of Q3 would nearly rack that up, nevermind when peeps actually d/l stuff.


Q

Leverz

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by TinCool:
Whoop, flate rate ADSL Access, I'd pay anywhere up to 150 a month for that kind of access. conn'ed 24/7, set up your own ftp and websites and everything, sounds like fun to me.</font>

I would not get too excited, since they can stop you setting up your own servers, they will have something to say that you are not allowed to set up servers yadda yadda. Still I will if I can, but it will be years until DSL will be in my area knowing my luck.

m1ke

1 gig limited, rofl .... you'd easily do 5gigs a day on a decent ADSL connection. Hell i've done a gig in 1 day even on ISDN. Anyone got an idea of its speed yet, 256k or 512.

chernobyl

i do about a GIG an hour and 2GIG on a good day.

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Renton

M1ke it depends on ur distance to the exchange, but 512k would be standard.

RentZ

bugler

Well there will probably be no broadband competition in many areas against them,so substitute the word 'greedy' for the word 'dumb'.

Celt

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by TinCool:
Whoop, flate rate ADSL Access, I'd pay anywhere up to 150 a month for that kind of access. conn'ed 24/7, set up your own ftp and websites and everything, sounds like fun to me.</font>

It will only be 64k upstream.

PiE

But that's not very helpful to us now, is it?

NORTH1

Hello all.
I have been following this topic with a lot of interest and execitement with the thought of affordable fast internet connection. So when today I got a visit from an eircom sale’s rep, about my change from eircom to NTL due to NTL’s Free at weekend service, I though this was a good opportunity to ask about the “rolling out” of the DSL service in September.
He told me that he himself had heard nothing of the DSL service, put after mentioning my interest in returning to eircom if this service was coming available, he decided to make a call to his boss.
To which I got the following information.
Yes the DSL service is coming available in September,
Put only to the corporate market,
And they have no plans to make it available to the household consumer.

As I said this came from a sales rep from eircom so take from that what you may.

Brian.

po0k

B A S T E R D S

cheating pack of swiney greedy no-look-to-the-future exploitative ignorant still-back-in-1969-Ireland shower of no good corporate mugs.

The Irish government was extemely foolish to let Eircom float public. They should have held onto the Loacal-loop and all teh physical infrastrucure and sold Eircoma s a carrier. Then we wouldn't have any o this boll0xing on. But BVertie would probably blow allt he cash on another stupid idea like taht stadium of his.

B A S T E R D S

Gladiator

WhiteLancer onthe eircom site they say it will be 128k up so id like to know were your getting your info from, maybe your right, i just want to know were you heard it

Lump

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by chernobyl:
i do about a GIG an hour and 2GIG on a good day.

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Well I get 55 Gigs on my 56K modem!!!!11!!!11!! cause I'm brill.


John

[IAR]Nevermind

well 100 quid is grand id pay that no prob since im paying 250 atm a month on isdn which is too expensive .

chernobyl

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Lump:

Well I get 55 Gigs on my 56K modem!!!!11!!!11!! cause I'm brill.


John </font>

well now i get about 10kb an hour cuz my ISP is down.

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NORTH1

Cut and paste.
Brian

[-FI-]Barra

is this 1 gig limit for real or what?
i mean if so are eircom more dumb than what i always thought?

irishguy

well suckers i get 515kbs actual d/l [well its just off dis 1 server in italy normaly i get between 25k and 300k]4 £40 a month off chorus [only avalible in limerick at the moment] they say 3gig d/l limit but 1 of the chorus techs said that they cant moniter it [at the moment] i d/l about 1gig a day and upp 2gigs a day

Gladiator

well "sucker" tell me, what are you doing with all that donkey poRn

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Lump

Im was taking the píss of course.

John

Leverz

CHorus Powernet is also in Kilkenny as well afaik, Friend there was trying to get it.

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