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Re: [LUG] Alternative to BT (Business Broadband) in Minions

 

 
On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 16:37 +0100, Rob Beard wrote:
> kevin wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> > Does any one Know if the Orange (or any other of the USB Dongles) would
> > be a reasonable bet to replace my expensive (I feel) BT Business
> > Broadband.
> >
> > In Minions we get 1/2 speed Duplex on the Phone line which is 500 k and
> > 250 k respectively. Marginally faster than a good Modem.
> >
> >   
> So basically about 50 to 60KB/sec?
> 
> I'd say that's about 10 times more than what you'd get on a dialup modem.
> > For this I get charged £103 per Qtr. I also have to pay the (Business)
> > rent on the BT Line which is around £45 per qtr. As I have another  Line
> > in, which the PO pays for I don't need the BT Line really.
> >
> >   
> Ouch that's a bit pricey.  My BT Total Broadband should be about £17 or 
> so a month.  Granted that is a home connection but due to the fact I'm 
> on ADSL Max I can get up to 8 MBit (which on my line is about 7 MBit or 
> 700KB/sec) down and around 400kbit up (or about 40KB).
> 
> Doing a check with the phone number in your signature by using the BT 
> Wholesale checker it suggests you can get a fixed rate broadband speed 
> of about 1 Meg with an engineer visit or using ADSL Max up to about 1.5 Meg.
> > So looking at Orange they suggest Minions Has %80 2g Coverage (whatever
> > that is) and no 3G or 3G+  Would I be wise trying it?  I also have not
> > seen anywhere on the Orange site any mention of Linux at all.
> >
> >   
> 2G is very slow dialup speed, you'd be lucky to get any more than about 
> 3 or 4KB/sec.  3G will give you possibly around 700KBit/sec on a good 
> stong signal, maybe more and 3G+ is HSDPA which is said to give up to 
> 7MBit/sec if you get a good signal but I've never got near that on my 
> Vodafone connection.
> 
> Going on what Orange have said, I would avoid going for mobile 
> broadband, at least for now unless you could possibly get something that 
> you can return if you can't get 3G reception.
> 
> Rob
> 
> 
Thanks for the thoughts, 

Looks Like I am stuck at  the minute then.
 
Regards

Kevin Lucas
Minions Post Master(Sub) reprieved (possibly!)
Po House, Minions,
Liskeard Cornwall 
PL14 5LE
01579363386


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