[nycbug-talk] Internet 768kb and up on a budget

[jh]

alex at pilosoft.com wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, jh wrote:
> 
> 
>>Just imagine if some innovative DSL vendor came up with a "bonded"
>>product (think Etherchannel for DSL) that allowed the end user to
>>transparently do what the OP is looking to do. Perhaps they'd sell a
>>preconfigured Soekris PC that was the "duct tape", so that even those
>>that were only moderately technically enabled could take advantage of
>>this.
> 
> No market for that. And a simple cisco 17xx will do the trick (two default
> routes, per-packet-load-balancing).

I have no interest in configuring a cisco 17xx, but perhaps if one came 
preconfigured as part of such service. And provided that the net effect 
of doing this was to give me a pipe upstream faster than 768k for a 
single file transfer (which is the issue that I'm dealing with - clients 
needing large amounts of data from me as quickly as possible, but 
typically just one client at a time).

> 
>>Perhaps they'd sell more than a few new DSL lines, at higher margin,
>>than they would otherwise, and give even more users a reason to switch
>>to their service. Would I trade my $50 single line for two bonded lines
>>priced at $125-$150/month (and pay for the black box)? Most certainly.
> 
> If you are serious, we can help you out. Particularly now that the 'naked
> dsl' is available, you don't need to pay for second VZ phone line just to 
> have DSL service.
> 

I'd be interested in something "turnkey", as per my comments aboved.

jh