Europeonline "Skybooster"..an alternative to dsl possibly

Supercell · 30-04-2002 08:13PM #1

Thought this may be of interest to the many people here to whom dsl is still a distant dream.

Europeonline will be unvailing their new "Skybooster" service at the end of the week.

This basicially is a unicast service, you have normal 56k upload speeds..however...download speeds will be up to 768k (rumour has it).

Sources say it will be possibly a three tiered service..with differing service levals depending on your spending ability

However, judging by the current Europeonline pricing, my own opinion is that its going to be a damn site more competitivly priced than eircoms dsl offerings.

Good thing is, this is something anyone in the country can use (with a big enough satellite dish).

I should point out though..it wont be any use for gaming.. as ping times over satellite are pretty slow..but for streaming, graphic intensive sites and downloading...768k should make thing a whole lot better than 56k

Also as the software appears to socksify your machine..kazza/morpheus and probably dcc on irc will work too (with a little tweaking)

chernobyl · 30-04-2002 08:17PM

Only available to ppl with 5.4 Mesh and above with "go fasta" stripes on the dish.

Unicast has never been a viable/sustainable offering, i am interested to see how EON make it work.

It has been...what..2 years since Unicast was offical on EON.

Supercell · 30-04-2002 08:32PM

true chernobyl, except this time, its not them doing it by themselves, its utilising the plenexis service..time will tell..but even in its unofficial capacity, the current 200-300k over unicast is still better than 56k .

Europeonline "Skybooster"..an alternative to dsl possibly

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