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<DIV>Cost for a 2M/2M shdsl connection?</DIV>
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<DIV>Jon L. Miller, MCNE, CNS, ASE<BR>Director/Sr Systems Consultant<BR>MMT
Networks Pty Ltd<BR><A
href="http://www.mmtnetworks.com.au">http://www.mmtnetworks.com.au</A></DIV>
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<DIV>"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure<BR> is trying
to please everybody." -Bill Cosby</DIV>
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<DIV><BR><BR>>>> scott@LinuxIT.com.au 9:15:20 PM 17/10/2003
>>><BR>We are on WestNet with a bridged account. To be honest we
havenīt lost<BR>connection in the last 3 months (that i am aware of). In
June we<BR>downloaded over 74GB. Free WAIX is definite boon! <BR>WestNet is
having problems with their Layer2 service at them moment but<BR>fortunately it
doesn't affect most of our clients because they are <BR>bridged.<BR><BR><BR>On
Fri, 2003-10-17 at 20:58, Jon Miller wrote:<BR>> Then we are bing ripped off,
because we pay over $1000/month and do not have WAIX. But this is our ISP
plan and their special VPN account, however we do get free backbone traffic. I
have to decide is it worth it in the long run. Our SLA is good and the
service (tech support) is very good. Just our monthly allocation of
bandwidth is very bad (500MB) and I do a lot of downloads of patches for clients
with sizes ranging from the a few KB's to 2-300MB. One or two of those and
the monthly allocation is used up. To top off everything else we pay $0.10
per MB after the initial 500MB. I've been thinking of switching, but
Swiftel recently had some outages that caused the xDSL to stop 3 times in 1 day
and this is a worry since my clients and myself need our system up all the
time. Again I'm told this this tends to happen late night or early
morning.<BR>> I'm looking for folks that have been with Swiftel for at least
a year to answer some questions regarding their uptime vs downtime.<BR>> So
if anyone on the list has been with Swiftel for at least a year can you relay
your thoughts on the service at Swiftel for the past year. Please send
this offline.<BR>> <BR>> Thanks<BR>> <BR>> Jon L. Miller, MCNE, CNS,
ASE<BR>> Director/Sr Systems Consultant<BR>> MMT Networks Pty Ltd<BR>>
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href="http://www.mmtnetworks.com.au">http://www.mmtnetworks.com.au</A><BR>>
<BR>> "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure<BR>>
is trying to please everybody." -Bill Cosby<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>>
>>> leon@brooks.fdns.net 2:51:59 PM 16/10/2003 >>><BR>> On
Thu, 16 Oct 2003 07:06, Scott Middleton wrote:<BR>> > if you[']r[e] in WA
and you don't have free WAIX then you are<BR>> > being ripped off.I
couldn't survive without it.<BR>> <BR>> One of my customers does over 60%
of their traffic through WAIX. They <BR>> still pay circa $1000 a month for
connectivity, including 1c/MB for <BR>> non-WAIX data.<BR>> <BR>>
Cheers; Leon<BR>> <BR>>
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