[ILUG] Re: eircom hi-speed??

[Garreth McDaid]

> I've been told by the Eircom guy out doing a couple of repairs that I
> probably wouldn't get ISDN (down the end of bohreen) if I was ordering
now.

I'll vouch for that. Getting ISDN out of Eircom anywhere outside the M50 is
well nigh impossible, even though all their switches are supposed to be
enabled.

You can almost feel the anguish coming down the phone line when you ask the
Sales people if its available...

Garreth

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Barry" <ilug at cutehoor.com>
To: "Eireann Design (Gianni Ponzi)" <gianni at eireanndesign.ie>; "ilug >>
irish linux users group" <ilug at linux.ie>
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Re: eircom hi-speed??


> Eireann Design (Gianni Ponzi) wrote:
> > Yep..I gathered it was ISDN, just wondernig if anyone has tried it..re:
> > costs etc.
>
> I use it with ESAT anytime (180 hours per month day or night). Total
> cost about €60 ex vat / month. I use pppd dial on demand and as Colm
> says, there's a very short delay to bring up the link. Latency is good,
> even though I've got an external TA - fine for ssh anyway. Sustained
> throughput is close to theoretical (8K/sec).
>
> I've never bothered combining channels.
>
> I've been told by the Eircom guy out doing a couple of repairs that I
> probably wouldn't get ISDN (down the end of bohreen) if I was ordering
now.
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