[geeks] Bleh...sucky connectivity awaits me

[Chris Byrne]

I might have to whether I want to or not. I havent worked since February and
the money has literally run out. I have exactly 250 left to my name at the
moment and about 10 times that in bills coming up in the next few weeks.
I've been waiting for my tax paperwork to come in fom the states so I can do
my Irish taxes (They owe me like 15 grand) but until then Im hosed.

On the other hand if I went back to the states or over to the UK I'd have
more work than I'd know whayt to do with. I'm getting upwards of 20
recruiters mailing me every day at this point. I knew the whole terrorist
thing would be great for the security and storagte industries but damn...

Chris Byrne

> -----Original Message-----
> From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf
> Of David Cantrell
> Sent: 19 April 2002 14:42
> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Bleh...sucky connectivity awaits me
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 01:01:27PM +0100, Chris Byrne wrote:
> > Try ?120 a month for ISDN, plus ?50 account fee ?.05 a minute peak time
> > (?0.75 per 15 minutes off peak)usage fees. Even in the limited
> areas that
> > have 512down/128 up adsl (about 5000 homes in a country of 4
> million)they
> > charge ?200. Welcome to internet access in Ireland.
www.irelandoffline.org

Move to London.  You know you want to :-)

512/256 ADSL starts at ... errm ... not much.  Something like UKP30/mth.
I'm paying around three times that, but that includes a proper router,
8 static routable IPs, no filtering at all, an ISP with a good network,
and great customer service.  Oh, and my ISP is a) privately held and
b) profitable - both of which are a Good Thing.

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