On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Jonas | Lamu Software
<jonas@lamusoftware.com> wrote:
On 07/24/2010 03:27 PM, [ Brainiac ] wrote:
Does this mean i can access KDN ADSL whenever I have a TELKOM land line?
equipment (and capacity is usually limited so it may be full). But
considering ADSL is available in Lamu your phone station in Nbo is
probably prepared. You can't be too far from your phone station but
that is usually not a problem.
I thought ADSL range was limited to some Km, measured in terms of some bird's flight, from the CO:-). It was about 5km from the CO, if without repeaters. Maybe technology has changed, thereby removing the limitation. Does KDN offer ADSL or SHDSL, btw?
and on another different line, can i have KDN ADSL and Orange Livebox
service on the same line? or should i have another line for redundancy?
You would need a second line. Sometimes operators share the equipment at
the phone station - in that case another ADSL as backup would not make sense.
If not maybe but if your phone lines go down you are stuck anyway so better
get a WiMax connection for backup (or just a 3G connection).
A solution with a 3G router that can switch to the 3G connection when the
ADSL connection goes down automatically is good. There are quite cheap
routers for that - http://www.dovado.com/ - haven't seen them in Kenya but
available from SA or Europe - http://www.infoferenda.eu
I've seen some TP-Link that can use 3G router as fallback when main link goes down, but yes, these may not be suitable since they are not DSL routers. If you don't get a Dovado, you can fall back to one of these - just use them as a "client" to the DSL router than you have :)