[ILUG] Eircom + Firewall

[Thomas Bridge]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 05:03:45PM +0100, Niall O Broin wrote:

> On 13 Oct 2004, at 13:54, Kevin Philp wrote:
 
> >Unfortunately many SME's will be upgrading from ISDN... and then you 
> >have less
> >choice. ESAT for instance won't touch the conversion of ISDN to ADSL 
> >because
> >it involves removing the ISDN box.... so, for the first year at least, 
> >I am
> >probably stuck with Eircom. If anyone knows different then please let 
> >me know
> >before I sign the next year of my life away to Eircom.
 
> This is total mullarkey. Eircom doesn't supply ADSL over ISDN for the 
> same reason they do so many other things arseways, so to get ADSL on an 
> ISDN line you first must convert the ISDN line to a POTS line, and then 
> get ADSL installed on that.

It could just be that Esat won't touch the migration process, but there
is a defined process for downgrading to POTS from ISDN and having DSL
enabled all at the same time.

I know that its not the most painless process in the world, but on the
whole the people in Netsource have been doing this for a while and
have a lot of experience doing it.

Talk to the sales department (and this again is why you should use
small DSL providers - they are just so much more customer focused
 and know exactly where to kick Eircom).

Thomas