[plug] adsl opinions

[Jon Miller]

Currently we are using both adsl (at home (128/384K) and a clients site
(384/1M)) and shdsl for our office (2M/2M).  The equipment being used is
a Cisco 827 for home, Cisco 2621 for office and Cisco 1726 for the
clients site.  This is due to an anticipated load of data that is to be
replicated from client to office and the client goes through our network
for mail, and Internet access.  The home system has been up and running
without any hiccups, all others are still being configured.  From a home
perspective it's been great having the extra speed and no drop outs.  We
are using Amnet as our provider and they use RequestDSL as their
provider plus they have a redundancy path.  We purchased a package with
a service agreement package that our link should be up 99.8% or rebates
are issued.
So it comes down to what you need.  Do some shopping around and check
out prices, because Amnet does not give up the bandwidth without a cost
(this they could do better).

JLM

On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 00:44, Ben Jensz wrote:
> Darren wrote:
> 
> >I want to upgrade my dial-up account  to adsl ,im interested to hear
> >others opinions,good-bad experiences with  their or other isp's.
> >cheers  Darren
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> Personally I'm with WestNet for ADSL at home (512K) and ADSL at work 
> (1.5Mbit).
> 
> Only problems I've ever had have been related to Telstra faults, which 
> have affected all ADSL users statewide (irrespective of ISP - they all 
> have to use Telstra).
> 
> If you need a highly reliable connection (well, as much as possible), 
> I'd steer clear of D-Link ADSL client equipment.  I have had a few 
> problems with my D-Link DSL-500 dropping out for no reasons for a couple 
> of seconds, which then reconnects by itself which can be rather annoying 
> (it seems to be an error quite a few people seem to get).  
> 
> But at work I got us a Cisco 827 ADSL router and now that its up and 
> running it works great, but I did have a few problems getting it up and 
> running (which were related to the Cisco - not the ISP or Telstra at 
> all).  They are about ~$1300 if I remember correctly, probably a tad 
> overkill for a home user though. :)
> 
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> / Ben
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