i know of places here in the US (apartment complexes where they charge the same rate as DSL and pipe 2 gige lines into their main complex and devide it up from there. so for me it is not the price. i look at the bw that could possibly be used and go from there.
--jeremy > Hi! > > Wooohhh ... I assume 100Meg is the peak due to 100BaseTX cableing. > Here in Germany you would have to differenciate between the local loop > and the traffic. The loop itself often more expensive than the traffic. > If you divide the price of a e3/t3 by 100 (users) you would probably go > cheaper with *DSL of your local Telco per user, even if you "forget" > about the price of t3 linecards/router. > > If there is not much (no?) peer to peer i would have said 2 Meg are a > little less, but 2*2 Meg bundeled _could_ be enough for "surfing". If > you have some internet radio listeners and some file up/download go up > to 10 Megbit. If your telco offers 10 Meg local loop (most times > crippled e3's), I would tend to take that "flat", or if money is a big > concern check for adsl 8meg/2meg. > > > Rgds, > Andreas > > > Jeremy D. May wrote: >> personaly i would see how much you use now and base it on that. i would >> say no less then a burstable DS3(T3/E3), idealy i would personaly perfer >> to drop a FE line (about 100 megs) i know most in the US will let you >> run >> a burstable Fe using only like 60 megs of it for a reasonable price. >> >> --jeremy >> >> >>>Hi, >>>I live in a building which has 96 apartments, all of them wired in a >>> LAN. >>>We have contracted an isp that connects our LAN to the internet with a >>>radio link. As our contract is going to expire soon, and I know the new >>>contract will be with higher prices, I'll try to propose a new locally >>>administered solution to my neighbours, that will be a direct link >>>to a local backbone, with our own local firewall/bandwidth sharing >>>machine. >>>My question is how much bandwidth should I ask for with my local >>>backbone to provide such universe of almost 96 home computers with a >>>reasonable internet access service? >>>Thanks, >>> >>>-- >>>Carlos >>> >>> >>>-- >>>To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > -- > Andreas John > net-lab GmbH > Luisenstrasse 30b > 63067 Offenbach > Tel: +49 69 85700331 > > http://www.net-lab.net >