Re: [Sheflug] E-Petition for Unusual ADSL Business Practices

["Morris, David \(Allvac, UK\)" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sheflug-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:sheflug-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Richard Ibbotson
> Sent: 27 March 2007 14:00
> To: sheflug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Sheflug] E-Petition for Unusual ADSL Business Practices
> 
> David
> 
> > <off topic>
> >
> > Personally, I'm in favour of capping and restrictions 
> (ducks incoming 
> > muck and bullets), especially on what are designated 
> 'domestic' lines. 
> > I'm a fairly low user at home.
> 
> There are domestic users like yourself who aren't all that bothered.  
> There's also thousands of people like me who have to have 1 
> to 8 M-bit on a domestic line to do any work or stay alive 
> due to various personal circumstances.  An ideal for me would 
> be 50 to 100 Gb of download capacity each month but I can get 
> by on 20Gb.  There's a lot 
> Daily working practices are moving 
> away from the office to the home.  The dark dungeon at 
> Attercliffe is beginning to disappear.
> 

Which exchange? Attercliffe? I've had or got at least one DSL line on
Attercliffe. I think the current one is on Sheffield and gives us >3Mb
(its what we use for visitors / emergencies), but SDSL was a non-starter
at only 512kb (and no SLA which is why we kept our leased line).


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