Brent Frère wrote:
Full stop. I just give the info that -as far as I know
and for the time
being- this is the best ADSL flat rate offer in Luxembourg.
So where is the problem? This thread was discussed long ago. You return
from vacation and reopen the discussion without new information or
answering real questions.
Why ??? Trafic does not cost anything.
Arcor, 1und1 from Germany and Cegecom from Luxembourg have problems that
some customers generate too much costs. Just read news pages from time
to time. Cegecom already sent blue letters to bad flatrate customers
(those who consume more tham 30 Gigs / month). This was published by
http://www.wort.lu (serious news source). Again, I wrote this an hour ago.
Glad to have the info. I didn't found it on their
web site (but I might
have missed it) so I didn't knew the rate in case of excess. Fair enough.
It is written here:
http://www.coditel.lu/english/isp/ispproducts.htm
<quote>
Extra monthly volume :€ 10.00 / month for an additional 10 GB.
</quote>
head-end for the city and surrounding areas. The same
signal is thus
delivered to the 25000 homes connected. If you say 10% only of the
subscribers will apply for Internet services, and that 10% only will be
connected at the same time, it gives you 250 users sharing the same
bandwidth.
If the problem arises, the provides still can split the beast into
segments. House blocks may be the smallest entity. House blocks are
directly connected to the gray Coditel boxes you see outside. From there
they can use any technology they want (even fibre optics).
ADSL on the other hand, is much less viable. The electromagnetical
proprieties of a phone cable is miserable compared to a coax cable.
There is a limitation to the length of the cable, ie. you house must not
be too far away from the service center. The wires (a phone wire does
not deserve being called cable) are bundled together in big bundles
under the street. Only a small percentage of the wire bundle can support
ADSL because of the high frequency and the signal overlapping to other
wires.
How good a Cable access works is only a matter of how much a provider
has invested in his infrastructure. Ideally, every gray Cable box is
connected via fibre optics. A house is only 50-200m away from a gray box
and connected over a high quality coaxial cable. A DSL user is connected
using a poor copper wire, bundled with hundreds other copper wires
(overlapping of signals) over a distance of many kilometres.
Greetings, Patrick Kaell