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IP: a view from the Netherlands Wrong Number Why Your Phone Company Hates DSL
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2002 10:13:03 -0400
------ Forwarded Message From: Erik Huizer <Erik.Huizer () nob nl> Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2002 16:10:49 +0200 To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: Re: IP: Cringely on DSL or Sorry, Wrong Number Why Your Phone Company Hates DSL Dave, To balance this message. I've just switched to DSL. Until recently none of the DSL providers in The Netherlands would give me a public address space and as I served for several years on the IAB , I felt I had a moral obligation not to use NAT :-) (beside that my IPsec VPN would no longer work). Recently SURFnet, the excellent academic and research network in the Netherlands started a cooperation with BBned an incoming DSL provider. I immediately applied for a test account (fortunately I am working part time at a university, so I was allowed to do so). The connection, the modem/router and a /29 public address space were delivered without to many problems and without much delay. Now I am enjoying up to 8 Mbit/s downstream. Last week I ran three parallel MPEG1 streams (at 1.5 Mbit/s) from my companies MPEG1 Dlay TV server and behold the performance was pretty good. With only two parallel streams it was excellent, with no delays or jitter to be observed. Of course I now want fiber, but until that is affordable, this is as good as it gets. Erik Huizer ------ End of Forwarded Message For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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