[Asterisk-Users] Small office requirements - Can this be done?

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Simon Coles wrote:

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> --On Tuesday, March 2, 2004 9:49 am +0000 Steve Kennedy 
> <steve-asterisk at gbnet.net> wrote:
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>> That's the crunch (1.5/512) ... it's actually the 512 which is relevent.
>> Virtually all DSL in the UK is a wholesale product from BT (they have
>> about 2 million customers, Easynet who local loop unbundle may have
>> 20,000, the rest of the providers maybe another 10,000 between them).
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>> All BT ADSL is 256K upstream, all BT DSL is contented (in theory 20:1
>> and 50:1, but actually a lot less than that), there are a few providers
>> doing their own contention over BT's product.
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>> However the 256K upstream is still the limiting factor, so you can get
>> one, and MAYBE two VoIP lines over it. If BT would up the upstream to
>> 512, you could probaly get 4 out of it ....
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> We haven't set it all up yet, but for our new UK office we've gone 
> with ADSL from Andrews & Arnold (http://www.aaisp.net/) who will let 
> you bond 2 ADSL lines together to get 512 upstream. We only moved in a 
> couple of days ago so I haven't had a chance to set it all up yet :-(
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Nildram also support bonding ADSL lines together, I think they currently 
support up to 4 lines (1Mb upstream 2Mb downstream) and they are looking 
at supporting more..

Later..