{"id":28,"date":"2005-02-10T15:50:29","date_gmt":"2005-02-10T15:50:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-01-28T11:43:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T11:43:26","slug":"affordable_broadband_at_last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/affordable_broadband_at_last\/","title":{"rendered":"Affordable broadband at last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big news this week was that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smarttelecom.ie\">Smart Telecom<\/a> (the largest independent Irish telecomms company) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smarttelecom.ie\/news\/press\/2005\/200502-07.htm\">announced<\/a> a new residential DSL product with some very attractive features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 Mb\/s download (128 Kb\/s upload)<\/li>\n<li>No download limit<\/li>\n<li>No fixed contention ratio &#8211; bandwidth will be increased to match demand<\/li>\n<li>Free line rental to the first 100,000 subscribers (the total installed base of broadband in Ireland at the moment is about 100K users)<\/li>\n<li>Voice service included (free calls to other Smart Telecom users, cheaper rates than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eircom.ie\/\">Eircom<\/a> to elsewhere).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As usual, there has been plenty of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boards.ie\/vbulletin\/showthread.php?t=224613&amp;page=1&amp;pp=20\">discussion<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boards.ie\/\">boards.ie<\/a> about this. Most people are impressed by the high bandwidth \/ low cost ratio, but concerned about the miserly 128 Kb\/s upstream bandwidth.<\/p>\n<p>Still, at \u20ac35, I expect they&#8217;ll make a killing. It will be interesting to see if and how the other ISPs beef up their offerings to make them more competitive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big news this week was that Smart Telecom (the largest independent Irish telecomms company) announced a new residential DSL product with some very attractive features: 2 Mb\/s download (128 Kb\/s upload) No download limit No fixed contention ratio &#8211; bandwidth will be increased to match demand Free line rental to the first 100,000 subscribers &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/affordable_broadband_at_last\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Affordable broadband at last<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snoopdos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}