[plug] Netcomm Aggregator

Craig Ringer craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Fri Aug 20 13:17:06 WST 2004


Craig Ringer wrote:

> Allow me to raise a question - I'm curious about the motivation for 
> running multiple DSL lines. Bandwidth? 6Mbit ADSL or 2Mbit SDSL are 
> availible through Request and their resellers. Uptime? Again, request 
> provide better (though not perfect) offers there, and an SLA. Redundancy 
>  from using multiple ISPs? Many DSL outages are caused by faults in 
> Telstra's part of the network - especially, it seems, the long and 
> expensive ones. These will take out all the Telstra Wholesale customers.

I should add that I am aware that you might want more bandwidth than one 
DSL line can provide or want to use both Request and Telstra for added 
safety (and to get cheap, unreliable bandwidth from a Telstra Wholesale 
service w/o relying on it too much).

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Craig Ringer




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