Leased Lines

[Moby]

Hi,

Does anyone have any idea if these are at all affordable for home use?

Thinking about 2mbps up and down.

Any idea of prices?

Cheers.

 

[sargey]

SDSL is probably better than a leased line, if your exchange handles it.

As for price...........

# 2MB SDSL with 5:1 contention: from £65 per month
# 2MB SDSL with 1:1 contention: from £100 per month

https://dsl.telng.com/?gclid=CPTBs6GNjYoCFSlaMAodrna6ew

 

[JoelDee]

Whats SDSL?

 

[Mole]

SDSL is probably better than a leased line, if your exchange handles it.

As for price...........

# 2MB SDSL with 5:1 contention: from £65 per month
# 2MB SDSL with 1:1 contention: from £100 per month

https://dsl.telng.com/?gclid=CPTBs6GNjYoCFSlaMAodrna6ew

If you look closer at that site, them prices are for the 'pay-as-you-go' system they do, done on a per gb basis.

If you wanted unmetered, you'd be paying a good couple of hundred a month

 

[McBunny]

our 2mb leased line is 9k a year for 3 year contract and about a 5 k install fee iirc

 

[Moby]

our 2mb leased line is 9k a year for 3 year contract and about a 5 k install fee iirc

Cheers Mate - I'll forget about that idea

 

[cava83]

leased line is better than SDSL as you are the only one on the line, and the contention is 1:1!!

SDSL is expensive too. you are looking at least a couple of hundred a month.

 

[Moby]

unfortunately I can't get SDSL either.

Looks like I'll have to put up with the upload speed of the ADSL.

Cheers.

 

[Griff]

Whats SDSL?

Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line

 

[JoelDee]

So basically just a devoted line to one particurlar user

 

[Darren S]

our 2mb leased line is 9k a year for 3 year contract and about a 5 k install fee iirc

Cheers Mate - I'll forget about that idea

Yep, and unlike SDSL, leased-line circuits are priced on the geographic distance between point A and point B. We gave up with LL when a single 256k connection (yep, 256k!) between Blackburn and Birmingham was just over £10k per year.

Having said that, they are very, very reliable - and being point to point, the full bandwidth is yours and not subject to the contention ratios of ADSL and SDSL.

D.

 

[Lee]

We've got a 16mb leased line here with Colt. It's fast and 100% reliable. Not exactly cheap though, but the price has dropped massively over the last few years.

 

[McBunny]

oh and its costs alot if you dont have fiber going into you house as they have to lay fiber too

 

[Darren S]

We've got a 16mb leased line here with Colt. It's fast and 100% reliable. Not exactly cheap though, but the price has dropped massively over the last few years.

I bet that used to cost a fortune?! It must still be a hefty wedge per year at the moment?

How much of that 16MB is used for 'personal reasons', Lee?

D.

 

[cava83]

we run a data center of our 2 meg leased line and its pretty quick

 

[Dafthead]

We have 2 x 100Mb netflex leased lines (1 redundant) for t'interweb and a few 100Mb short haul leased lines and they cost us a FORTUNE but we do provide web access for nearly 200 tails on our ipstream