Hey Peter, Peter Klavins wrote:
I think the business-ADSL space is changing a lot and expectations are rising for what can be achieved with a business ADSL line.
In Australia, the reality is that residential grade ADSL is often no less good than business grade and is usually a whole lot cheaper.
I rent a business level ADSL line here in Italy because it's convenient for me especially because competition has lowered prices to the point where for example 6 Mbit ADSL with no upload/download limits (which on the contrary is common back home in Australia) costs of the order of 50 AUD a month flat. I got the business level ADSL instead of the consumer level ADSL precisely because it offered a static IP address, that indeed has not changed in all the years that I have had the service,regardless of reboots. But, importantly, it is assigned by DHCP, presumably forthe convenience of the customer in not having to be a master at configuring their network equipment, just simply plug in and follow the standard instructions on the consumer-level ADSL modem. The ADSL connection is of a high quality by what I can judge: it often remains connected for months at a time, until usually I bring it down by restarting something, not the ISP.
You may be surprised to know that Exetel offer business here a service almost the same as you describe:
- static IP [similarly setup] - $AUD50 per month - 6mbps/640kbps [ADSL1 Enhanced]- Unlimited data 7am to 7pm Monday to Friday and $AUD1 per GB outside of these times.
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btw a mail server on ADSL is not so much different to one on ISDN, but ADSL is available with much faster speeds.
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