<knitting circle>

Well I heard, from Mavis down the road, who heard from her husband's
boss who was having a few drinks with the Waikickamoocow RSA president
that they're going to set up a nationwide high-speed gigabit ethernet
network in every major centre in the country by next week, offering flat
rate internet access for ~50 a month. Aparently they're going to use the
iridium satellites for two-way internet in the next month or so.

*sip of rosemary tea*

</knitting circle>

>>> "Paul Mackenzie" <paul.mackenzie@team.xtra.co.nz> 12/07/00 04:59PM
>>>
Spread the rumours :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-adsl@unixathome.org [mailto:owner-adsl@unixathome.org]On

> Behalf Of drkn
> Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 4:27 PM
> To: Chris Hellberg; zagadka@penguinpowered.com; adsl@unixathome.org
> Subject: Re: Fw: re[2]: Xtra Jetstart?
>
>
> I've just heard from an associate that Telecom have pushed back
> the release
> date of flat rate ADSL indefinitely...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Chris Hellberg <Chris.Hellberg@telecom.co.nz>
> To: <zagadka@penguinpowered.com>; <adsl@unixathome.org>
> Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 3:41 PM
> Subject: Re: Fw: re[2]: Xtra Jetstart?
>
>
> > >>> "Nem" <zagadka@penguinpowered.com> 12/07/00 02:00PM >>>
> > Yeah, but all I want is a simple 256kbps (128k doesn't really do it
for
> > me)
> > connection across _town_ that goes through maybe 2-3 exchanges at
most.
> > How
> > much can that realistically cost relative to the cost of
international
> > bandwidth.
> >
> > When you're talking about going between exchanges, what do you
mean.
> > You only go through one exchange before your physical connection
is
> > terminated at a DSLAM. From then on, it may go through several
exchanges
> > (which is invisible to the end user) before it gets off at the
peering
> > ISP's router. What happens at a network level I would have thought
to be
> > more important. For example, if you are using paradise and connect
via
> > Dunedin, your connection might have to go all the way up to
Wellington
> > then overseas, rather than going out an international gateway in
> > Christchurch.
> >
> >
> > Come to think of it, $100 a month would buy you 2 phone lines
> > (residential)
> > and the isp charge to use them, then you could multilink and you
would
> > have
> > nearly 128k (before overheads etc etc, and then there's latency and
so
> > on).
> >
> > The only ISP in the country I know of that does multilink is xtra
and
> > you can't have two flat-rate accounts. You can have one, but you
have to
> > pay $2.50 an hour for each subsequent connection you make. Not to
> > mention that you're using up twice as many lines as before, and you
may
> > still have to buy a third line if you wish to use the internet at
the
> > same time, whereas jetstream frees up the phone line.
> >
> >
> > <<snip>>
> >
> >
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