On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 02:51:01AM +0200, Rene Bartsch wrote: > Am Die, 2003-05-27 um 01.48 schrieb Gavin Hamill: > > Hi :) > > ... and certainly wants to spend all his working life for paying his > satelite-ISP subscription. > > If you calculate EOL with five transponders of 34 MBit/s each this are > 170 MBit/s brutto.
Interesting stuff... Certainly talking from a UK perspective, consumer-grade ADSL is sold max 500kbps at 50:1 contention ratio - it's set at that level at each local telephone exchange by our wonderful telecoms monopoly BT. Taking a single transponder pumping out 34Mbps, so 72 customers would each be able to have a guaranteed 500kbps connection at all time.. But wait, by applying the 50:1 contention, we can suddenly sell 34Mbps of bandwidth to 72 * 50 = 3600 customers! Surely 3600 people each paying maybe 30 EUR a month would be enough for a viable service? Of course, I'm probably vastly oversimplifying :) Cheers, Gavin. -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
