Re: Broadband still coming to 100% of NI

[Tony Butler <lists@xxxxxxx>]

Quoting Mark McCall <lists@xxxxxxx>:

> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/22/33293.html
> > Still hope for u McCall
>
> Yep.
>
> A mate who was at that conference yesterday says a lot of the action
was on
> wireless broadband services.  Apparently these have the advantage of
being
> symetrical 512/512

Cool.  I only have my 2mb connection with BY coz I want a decent upstream
speed - I don't need 2mb down - well, not often anyway :)
Since wireless is a totally different technology, there's no need for asym
-
and indeed would probably be harder to implement....

Back in my ISDN days, before broadband was available in my area, NTL did a
wireless trial in Croydon and.....the cutoff was the end of my road -
bastards!

I guess wireless is the only realistic proposition for ppl like you in the
sticks eh m8?

> I know Ant is on a wireless trial at present though and in his words
"it's
> NAT'd all the hell" and that's giving him problems running
servers etc.

Not surprising really - if everyone has highish speed symmetric connections
at
home, how can ISP's continue to shaft businesses for connectivity?  By
making
it difficult for home users to do all the server type stuff that businesses
normally wat.
Still, there's bound to be a way around it - there usually is.....

T.