It has been a long and winding road, but now the first DSL lines with a download speed of 16.000 Kbps have been activated in Niedernberg’s Nordring. More than twelve months ago we sat down with Niedernberg’s mayor Jürgen Reinhard, the German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom, and other interested companies. Despite SDSL lines, the fast development in the Internet threatened to leave us behind. So far, we could only dream of adding mobile users to our network or let alone efficiently taking charge of customers’ projects like the web TV channel of Zell am See-Kaprun. To cut a long story short: the time was nigh for some major changes.

This Tuesday the first ADSL line with a download speed of 16.000 Kbps was activated for our office at the Businesspark Untermain. Actually we had planned to use it in test mode first but since we had a stable connection to the Telekom network and performance did not fluctuate even after several hours of use, the lines were taken into operation the same night.

And the new line even offers some reserves, as our tests have proved. The broadband allocation of our firewall remains to be optimized in order to exploit the full potential of our connection. But already now, the result is quite impressive:

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