ADSL Question

[milanbenes]

just ordered ADSL for me little house on the prairie, luckily it's within reach of the ADSL station.

The service will be:

maximum speed 4096/256 kb/s

as far as I understand that's max 4096 down and 256 up

for people used to working from home (I guess with a VPN client), is 256kb/s (max) up speed good enough or should I find a service offering a faster up speed ?

Thanks,

Milan.

[OwlHoot]

It also depends on the contention ratio, i.e. (AIUI) how many other people are sharing, or potentially can share, your link down at the exchange. For a typical domestic line this is 50 or 30, but the smaller the better.

[VectraMan]

UK ADSL seems to be stuck on 256K uploads despite the increases in download speeds. I don't think any of the BT based services offer any different.

It depends what you're doing. If you copy a large file one way it will be noticeably faster than copying it the other way, but for most things latency is what counts.

[milanbenes]

the service is from 02

it is a 1:50 aggregation

uploading files... I will more be working with the vpn client on the command line of the customer's servers and the main copying will be from one unix host to another with the interface being the vpnclient - what I mean is I won't so much be phyisically uploading files but more using the destination unix command line to move files around between their systems

256kbs might be good enough

the connection can be increased to 8mbit down and 512 up but that is about 60 euros a month

maybe best start with the 4mbit/256 and increase if necessary ?

thanks for the advice

Milan.

[VectraMan]

uploading files... I will more be working with the vpn client on the command line of the customer's servers and the main copying will be from one unix host to another with the interface being the vpnclient - what I mean is I won't so much be phyisically uploading files but more using the destination unix command line to move files around between their systems

If that's what you're doing, I think a 300 baud modem would be fine.

[lilelvis2000]

just ordered ADSL for me little house on the prairie, luckily it's within reach of the ADSL station.

The service will be:

maximum speed 4096/256 kb/s

as far as I understand that's max 4096 down and 256 up

for people used to working from home (I guess with a VPN client), is 256kb/s (max) up speed good enough or should I find a service offering a faster up speed ?

Thanks,

Milan.

I cry everytime someone in the country get a higher speed connection than the lousy 512K I get. Even on Be I can only get 1M. And I live on the edge of town so I'm hardly in the sticks.

[AtW]

for people used to working from home (I guess with a VPN client), is 256kb/s (max) up speed good enough or should I find a service offering a faster up speed ?

It depends in your next door neighbour runs SKA or not...

[~Craig~]

It depends in your next door neighbour runs SKA or not...

If your client is anything like the one i'm working for your home connection will be faster than their LAN!

[AtW]

If your client is anything like the one i'm working for your home connection will be faster than their LAN!

I have 3 connections with total capacity of 25 Mbits down and over 2 Mbits up...

[milanbenes]

LilElvis,

this house is in the sticks in CZ !

Anyway folks, using a vpn client does the membership think 256kb/s UP will be good enough for ssh to remote Unix servers to perform sys admin work ?

Milan.