At 06:05 PM 4/17/2001, you wrote:
>On Tue, 17 Apr 2001 at 09:02:32, you wrote:
>(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>
> > and of course shared bandwidth that from the advertised 1Mbit/128Kbit
> >line speed gave me 10 days ago the AMAZING speed of 14Kbytes
> >DOWN / 16 Kbytes UP... Yep and for all this AMAZING speed I had to
> >pay 49$ a month!
> >For the same price I get DSL and 1500 Mb/384Kb (max granted and I am
> >far away from my Telephone company but at least speeds are consistent)
> >One note for any of you that gets xDSL in Europe (I believe they started
> >offering it in Germany the UK and Greece). Try to avoid the PPPoE
> >protocol if you can... gives too much overhead :-)
>... and ADSL in the UK will have similar bandwidth problems when it
>becomes popular. Our domestic implementation is 512k bps shared between
>50 users.
>... but not available in Tring (8-(#
>-
The good part about xDSL is that shared bandwidth is on the backbone not
the line unlike regular PSTN dial-up and Cable.
512Kbps tho is not much considering that my buddies in Greece just got
1Mbps down/384 up (weird for Greece but true)
Phoebus
