On 23:19 20/11/2004, Michel Py said:
What's ridiculous is you. Tell me, mister I-know-it-all-for-the-entire
world, how does it cost to get 3mbit always-on service with a static IP
over ISDN lines? Oh, I see. It's not available and you have to bond
_two_ E1s to get this much bandwidth. Right on. You can't even get
128kbit always-on service for the price I pay for my 3mbit.
Is your IP address related in a way to your telephone number (what the ART
(French FCC) questionnaire would imply as something to consider) ?
> Stephen Sprunk wrote:
> But that's the situation in the US... DSL/Cable are
> significantly cheaper and faster than ISDN, often by a
> factor of 10x or more per kbps.
You live in "old Europe" ?
It's not only in the US. In France for 30 euros/month you get up to
15mbit down/1megabit up and free VOIP with hook to the PSTN on the
regular phone line.
My ISP offers it from this week for 14.95 euro/month. They say they will
mail existing 30 euro users on monday with an offer. Another sells 9
megabit for that rate. We are just seeing developping the situation we saw
developping in early 80s, when Europe started to develop sure, stable,
secure, professionnal services while USA proposed to include services
(datacoms) in the WTO Kennedy round. I only pray for a joint culture, so
the users avoid the delays of the previous rounds. IETF could help.
jfc
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