(posted at 07:52PM BST)
What you need:
1 x Cisco 2620XM w/ minimum 64Mb RAM (IOS 12.3T or higher required)
2 x WIC-1ADSL Interface Cards
2 x 8Mbit/832Kbit ADSL Circuits
... a kick-ass ISP such as Spilsby Internet Solutions :-P
What you get:
1 x 16Mbit/1.5Mbit Dual-Stack (both IPv4 and IPv6) ADSL Connection
This is why we started offering ADSL in the first place; because the consumer packages are so piss-poor and the business packages are merely the same thing with a higher price tag attached - to say they are over-subscribed and susceptible to a slight bandwidth shortage would not even begin to describe the problem.
No mass-market ISP offers the above and it is often the only alternative for those users who are stuck with a single low-quality phone line with no means of getting a faster connection short of moving house.
Of course, the little guy has to compete with the big guys who can afford television adverts spouting false claims such as, "We offer the fastest wireless broadband in the UK" - which are easily debunked simply by looking at our own users who have migrated in from said ISP citing poor speeds as their primary motivation for moving.
We are migrating more folks in than we are migrating out so I'm not too concerned about those ISPs at the moment :-P |