[ILUG] eircom hi-speed [OT]

[kieran at tul.ly]

Niall O Broin wrote:

>> If you ask eircom the right question about the Dry pair, you may be in luck.
>> Look at this article. I found it ages ago.
>> http://www.go-build.net/~lotas/article.php?sid=4. It has some information
>> about how this can be done and what to ask. Good idea. I would like to try
>
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>Where does that tell me what magic words I can use with Eircom to persuade
>them to supply something which they stopped supplying to new orders at least
>5 years ago ? The article referred to is Cringely's about rolling your own
>DSL over a "dry pair". This is not at issue - obtaining the "dry pair"
>(known as a tie-line in this country) is.

It doesn't :)

But as others have said, you can still get tie lines; depends 
on who you talk to in eircom (they were still giving them out 
a year ago anyway.).

For people who are considering this, the £800 figure probably 
only applies to a line between two points on the same local 
exchange -- handy if you live near work and they have a
speedy Internet connection you can piggyback on but not for 
much else.

If the endpoints are on different exchanges a mileage allowance 
is involved which makes it prohibitive for most people.

Remember to factor in the cost of the SDSL modems at either
end (and possibly an SDSL-ethernet router at the work end); 
these aren't as common as plain ADSL modems. 

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|\ieran
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