ECN Forum Forums Technical Discussion Re: Computers and the Internet ADSL??

Guys,
Here is a "revised" set of charges presented by the main (only) Telco and ISP in NZ here.
Have a good look around the site, if you dare, there are a lot of fish-hooks in what's written there.

{Oop's mucked that one up, what a difference one number can make!}



[This message has been edited by Trumpy (edited 11-25-2004).]

Dear Mike. I maybe wrong, but that is quite cheap. I mean if I have seen it right, a basic is about 50.- NZD. Here ADSL 256 is about 100 NZD. That's what I pay.
But prices depend very much on salaries.

That Museum was interesting. When I was in college, we moved up from keypunches and carry the deck to the computing center to 33ASR teletypes and we thought we were in heaven. That changed our world from batch to on-line. We even had computer access from a satellite facility about 30 miles away. That was near the time that HP introduced the first scientific calculators. To geeky engineering students, life was good. Now I have to live with only a 256k ASDL line at home. BTW, I think the theoretical max for ASDL technology is about 6 or 7 megabits. What you get is almost exclusively determined by a software entry at your CO. It is a bit ironic but the best cable plant for DSL is old-fashioned, heavy gage, solid copper lines. A lot of the new technologies exclude DSL.

What is the next step up from ADSL?.
Is it Fibre Optic?.
It'll be the year 5000 by the time we get that here, by then we'll be back to living in trees again!.

The first high school I went to in 1977 had an old system I played around with where we still had keypunches for batch operation. We could still operate interactively: By using the teletype keyboard to input code in octal onto the magnetic drum.

In 1978 I transferred schools and spent many hours using an ASR33 linked via a 110 bps modem to the PDP11/40 at the local college. But the sheer luxury was going down to the college itself where if you pleaded, begged, or just managed to get there early enough, you could enjoy the luxury of using an assortment of VDU terminals. The Cifer VDTs were beautiful to use.

BTW, the ADSL story I posted above is now complete, for the service was finally enabled properly a few days ago. At last!

Trumpy,

"In the year 2525, If man is still alive...."

Mike, the upgrade is from 1-100 mbit/sec, which is called a leased line here and requires a whole lotta money and a Cisco X21 special router (which the dealer forgot to say so we are waiting for the internet since 15 Nov).

[This message has been edited by Gloria (edited 12-08-2004).]