Anyone ever here of HOTWIRE dsl??? (service)

[FFactory0x]

My apt building in Philly is getting internet service though a group called HOTWIRE Communications. Anyone ever here of this or experianced it??? Its DSL service for $44/month with each additional connection in the apt for $9. Each additional gets there own modem and static ip as well. They claim dl of 768 and up of over 1mb

 

[Lord Evermore]

It doesn't make sense that they'd have uploads over 1Mbit per second and downloads of only 768k. Every broadband provider gives higher download speeds.

Only references I can find are for Hotwire components for DSL equipment.

Hmmm, found this: http://www.nettechindustries.com/company%5Cpress-release-menu%5Cpress-releases-menu-2002%5Cpress-release-archive-2002%5Cpress-release-archive-2002_12.html

Sounds like what's happening with you. 🙂 If they really have a 10Mbps connection to each apartment building, then I suppose your service might be pretty good. I'd assume your "DSL" will only be a physical wire down to the basement, where it's aggregated and put onto the wireless signal to the data center (I assume it's wireless from the way that press release reads). So you at least don't have to worry about any issues with the signal quality or distance on that part. And a 10Mbps link would be considered good for maybe 40 to 80 users, depending on how they use it (all services are oversold because the expectation is all the users won't be using it at once). If your entire apartment building is used by college students, you may never see much bandwidth with everybody sharing files and downloading porn.

Pretty nice if you can get good speeds in reality. 44 bucks is awesome for a static IP, and 9 bucks more for each extra connection is great (the only reason they can do that would be due to having the DSL only running inside the building and not actually going outside onto the phone network).

 

[FFactory0x]

They said they have a full duplex box in the basement. Some heavy duty thing with 10 t1's going into it

 

[Lord Evermore]

Ten T1's is about 15Mbps, more than they claimed in that article but maybe they used more at your site. Still not much if you've got a lot of people in your building that might use a lot of bandwidth continuously. Figure that college campuses with 100Mbps connections to backbones run out of bandwidth a lot. 🙂 I know of one specifically that was pushing 90Mbps continously onto an OC3 and was getting another installed through another provider.