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EastBT WLAN is here....

  • 01-02-2003 2:21pm
    #1
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭


    This from electric news
    Esat BT has launched its first public access wireless LAN service at Dun Laoghaire Harbour. The company, a subsidiary of British Telecom, said that the new public Wi-Fi network will be up and running by the end of February. The Irish WLAN is part of the BT Openzone scheme, which has seen BT launch similar short-range wireless data networks throughout the UK. Pricing for access ranges from EUR32 per month per user for 300 minutes to EUR136 per month for unlimited usage of any LAN. Users can also pay EUR10 for one hour's worth of usage within 24 hours.

    I no nothing about wireless but those
    prices look completely wrong to me, did they forget a decimal point?

    I've just check out the official BT Openzone site, those prices are correct!:eek: How can they justify
    such tarifs?

    Mike.


Comments

  • #2
    yellum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,025 ✭✭✭yellum


    So is this what the DMCNR is subsidising ?


  • #3
    mayhem#
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,051 ✭✭✭mayhem#


    And you think this is expensive?!
    I've seen tarifs for usage of WLAN across Europe ranging from 1.50 Euros p/m to 35 Euros per day....

    E.


  • #4
    carrotcake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,085 ✭✭✭carrotcake


    the fact that it's 11mbit might have something to do with it!


  • #5
    Rew
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 8,679 Mod ✭✭✭✭Rew


    11 mbit between the client device and the Access Point... that doesn't mean 11 mbits to the net...

    To gime the maximum bandwidth to a user they would have to drop a minimum of 6 megs in to each site... thats fairly expensive...

    Also u have to take in to account that u can only get a maximum of 5.5 megs of through put, nd if there is any one else using the same AP you will get less. If Esat are smrt they probably installed bandwidth mangers so each client only gets a meg or 2 anyway....

    still think it worth the money

    ;)


  • #6
    yellum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,025 ✭✭✭yellum


    I'd say you'd honestly be lucky getting more than 512k from them. Ooooh I wonder will they feed it from a dsl line. That'd be interesting.


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