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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 08:53:53 +1000
From: Quark AudioVisual - Hilton Travis To: Aussie Isp Message-Id: <006201c5b723$afb4b080$1c45a8c0@QuarkIT.local> References: <007501c5b696$196890c0$1c45a8c0@QuarkIT.local> <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509111633220.23717@per-staff.iinet.net.au> <000601c5b6ae$efaf3950$1c45a8c0@QuarkIT.local> <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509112045490.6481@per-staff.iinet.net.au> Subject: Re: [Oz-ISP] Housing Complex |
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Hi Ian, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Henderson" <i a n h @ c h i m e . n e t . a u To: "Quark AudioVisual - Hilton Travis" <h i l t o n @ Q u a r k A V . c o m Cc: "'AUSSIE ISP'" <a u s s i e - i s p @ a u s s i e . n e t Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 10:57 PM > On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Quark AudioVisual - Hilton Travis wrote: > >> What pipe size would you think would be acceptable to a community of >> this size, and where could it be obtained? Unfortunately, ADSL2 is not >> available in the area, or an easy way would be a couple of aggregated >> ADSL2 connections. > > That's the six million dollar question - what grade of service do you want > to provide to your users? Consider: > > - Number of users signed up > - Number of concurrent connections > - Plans available - large or small Gb download per month > - Tail speed - 100Mbit vs. 1.5Mbit per user > - Local content availability > - Average b/sec per user per day > > The upshot of these calculations will (usually) show something > between 1:25 to 1:100 for residential broadband users. So for as little as > 66 end users, you may get away with a couple of Telstra DSL tails > multilinked together. David seems to think that a couple of ADSL2 connections is skimping for 66 houses, and he may be right if they are all heavy Internet users, but these are being aimed at the 45+ "early retirees" age group, many of whom will likely do a bit of browsing, a bit of email, check their share trading and maybe some Google Earth browsing to see where their next holiday destination may be. :) Personally, I think a couple of ADSL2 connections will probably be sufficient for quite some time, but I definitely will have the capability to expand this if and when needed. So, although all 66 townhouses will be "signed up", I cannot see them all being heavy downloaders even if they are concurrent users. They will have on-site email, portal and a proxy, so this will likely also assist in reducing off-site traffic a little. Regards, HiltonT ---- email "unsubscribe aussie-isp" to m a j o r d o m o @ a u s s i e . n e t to be removed. |
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