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[devil]

Where have I said they were the average temperatures? Please don't try and put words in my mouth. I quoted common peak early afternoon temperatures in early August, when the 2°C and the 20% RH differential is usual between inland and the coast. I did not quote absolute peaks, either, but a real peak that will occur on at least 2 or 3 days each year, usually about 7 - 10 days.

If you care to Google "temperature humidity comfort", you will obtain many thousand results, some of which will discuss this problem with charts. In fact, with the figures I mentioned, the coastal conditions exceed the sunstroke threshold on some of the comfort charts while the inland ones don't. This is not subjective but studies by scientists over more than 75 years.

You can also ask the EAC, who will tell you that the per capita consumption of electricity in the coastal towns is about 20% higher at peak summer conditions than inland. This is, of course, because of the need for higher levels of aircon. The same applies to California, where the peak demand exceeded the supply a few years ago: the rolling blackouts that were applied were to the coastal towns, because that is where the overloading was greatest.

[Svetlana]

Hi Devil

The electricity consumption in Nicosia compares favourably with the rest of the island in Summer because most Nicosians have escaped to the Troodos to avoid the heat.

Nicosia has many attractions but I have never thought the climate as being one of them!

An alternative to ADSL/Broadband is Satellite internet access, of course.

Svetlana

[devil]

Satellite is a very expensive option if you need to upload as well as download. If you use it on a download-only basis, you are talking about CYP 50/month plus the cost of an ordinary DUN connection which has to be up and running all the time you are downloading. If you need a satellite 2-way connection without the need for DUN, you can have it, but check the total costs before signing on the dotted line: CYP 1500 for capital outlay and anything from CYP 200 to 1,000/month, depending on your bitrate and other options thereafter.

[Hazza]

I work for a new company in Limassol. I'm a cable engineer installing fibreoptic cables, running them on the AIK electricity poles. We are a team of 10 people in Limassol and we have another team of 10 working in Nicosia. We are as a company expecting to offer high speed internet, cable television and telephone service this year. I won't mention the name of the company as I believe it will come across as a blatant advert with it being my first post in these forums.

There is another company with a team based in Nocosia, Larnaca and Limassol that are also using the AIK electric poles. As far as I know, they are only offering cable television.

For those interested in the service, all I am saying is be patient as there are now companies in Cyprus who will not only try to take on I-Choice (who I am using now), they are going to compete directly against them.

[pimprenelle]

Hi Hazza,
I am also very new on this forum.
From my knowledge (as a french user but absolutely not as a specialist) :
- fiber optic is one way to reach ADSL or xDSL (especially used in USA : for example NOOS company)). It gives via a special box and card :
. internet access
. and TV ± HDTV access
- the second one is via copper fiber (by far the first in France for internet access). It gives :
. via mural connector : classical phone access +RTC connection for internet, so that (even simultaneously)
. via mural connector + a specific modem : internet access and also access to, if ADSL or xDSL is available, VoIP (voice over IP = phone without disconnection while we surf on the web), audio (streaming) and video (TV ±HD) directly on your computer (numerical transmission or via your computer (requiring then a conversion numerical --> analogical) to your standart Hi-Fi and TV
- the last one is satellite for phone and/or internet and/or TV (via antenna ± modem) ; this one everywhere in the world is very expensive and could be manage only by local or regional public services or by private companies for their business.
Concerning Cyprus, and following the links given in this topic (and others in this forum) so that my own researches on the web, I thought that i-Choice from CYTA uses the second way (coper fiber).
In your previous post you explain that new companies develop fiber optic cables in Cyprus (one in which you are working : congratulations, and please stay in good health as anybody in your team!). Will these fiberoptic cables bring ADSL via the first way (as NOOS does in USA) or as a degrouping (total or partial) network from a node connected to fibercoper? I don't know what is "AIK electricity pole" (perhaps the answer is inside this "french misunderstanding").
Thanks a lot for your explanations

N.B. : are really the locations of DSLAM "top secret" ... knowing them would help me to select a flat or house ; so if you are advise of an official map under a web link it would be great

[Aris]

I won't mention the name of the company as I believe it will come across as a blatant advert with it being my first post in these forums.

Go ahead and post it. I am curious

Are you CableNet or those are the others?
Will you cover suburbs also?

[Hazza]

Definitely NOT cablenet. I worked for them but left because I didn't like the way they work, the materials they use and the internal politics.

The company is Primetel, part of the Thunderworx.

Eventually we will cover the subarbs. At the moment, we have orders from very large companies so we are following the route to them, giving them a direct fibre connection of 2GB (no, its not a typo, it is gigabytes!).
We will be splicing cable of the existing run, which we will eventually (this year) be connecting to peoples homes.

If ever you see a white platform truck, the chances are, it will be me, so just come and say hello

[Piratis]

2GB

Are you sure is gigabyte and not gigabit?
I mean, Cyprus ISPs do not seem to have the international bandwidth needed to actually support so high speeds. Or do they? How much does it cost for those companies?

[Hazza]

Installation = £2,000
Monthly fee = don't actually know that one. Very expensive I would imagine.

[Marco]

Hello, I'm interested about how is going the deployement of ADSL in
Cyprus.
Hazza will you give me some info?
When ADSl will be available in the new company?

Marco