tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8366158.post109597048266069794..comments2023-10-05T15:05:34.667+03:00Comments on Telecoms in Latvia: "GMISPs" in Latvia and other remarksJuris Kažahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10052208772017734513noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8366158.post-1096037905237124282004-09-24T17:58:00.000+03:002004-09-24T17:58:00.000+03:00A valuable comment. It shows you are lucky in pick...A valuable comment. It shows you are lucky in picking the right building to live in :). Personally, I have not had much trouble with HomeDSL, which now costs around LVL 15 per month. The only thing is the speed. I also don't get the point of the new MDSLPro, which is HomeDSL plus anti-virus and firewall, plus they install all this "free" and give you 320 kbps downlink (instead of 256). I Big deal! It costs LVL 29 per month, double the "non" pro price. What you are really paying for is the anti-virus software and the labor of setting up the connection and configuring the PC (hah, with my Mac, they would earn their money simply because Lattelekom doesn't understand Macs).<br />If I am going to pay double, spare me the antivirus (Mac, right ?) and I already have a firewall for, I think less that LVL 1 per month, Give me at least 512 kbps. Or why not the whole 2 Mbps that the DSlams were delivering last summer for a while when the slowdown software was removed?<br />The comment, however, shows that I am right in saying there are many informal broadband users whose "band" is a lot bigger that that offered for a similar price by the big boy, Lattelekom.Juris Kažahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10052208772017734513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8366158.post-1096011118719557932004-09-24T10:31:00.000+03:002004-09-24T10:31:00.000+03:00Somehow I think Apollo's DSL service is so bad, sh...Somehow I think Apollo's DSL service is so bad, sharing it via a local network would only spread the disease. I had an interesting finding not long ago - not long ago I lived in the center of Riga and was looking for a decent broadband connection, DSL was out of the question because I had that before and I definately wasn't happy with it. I called up all the major ISP's and the only options I got was either DSL or a radiolink, but in order to get that, I had to find 3 or 4 other people in the near vicinity who would use it aswell, otherwise the monthly cost would just be way too high. But then something came up, I found a company that I previously had't heard of before and it turns out they have an optical switch in the attic of the building right next to mine. All in all, I negotiated that I would be able to connect to that switch, a direct 100mbit connection to the backbone of LIX for a whooping 10 Ls / month. Can you believe it? I couldn't believe it at first, because a week before I was using Apollo's DSL for 24 Ls / month and with a crappy 256kbit! And after the initial setup, I logged on to my favourite site and checked the bandwidth - I got an incredible download speed of 5MB/s from ir and was utterly speechless. Now the price is 34 Ls / month with a limit of 1GB for international traffic, which is OK, since I don't live there anymore, I keep my own personal linux based server for any needs that may arise in the near future. <br /><br />mxz@mxz.lvAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com