Yeah, where do I sign up? Unless you're saying 3x the cost of one of Visi's business DSL lines which are like $400 something a month. I can get a t-1 from my house to just about any ISP in town for around $400 a month, but that doesn't include the ISP charges for bandwidth, that's only the charges from Qwest. Too bad we don't have this here in MPLS: http://www.cogentco.com/home.html 100Mbps fiber to your house for $1000/month. Unlimited bandwidth, so you could saturate the line all day if you wanted. I think you get a whole class C to play with too. :) Jay > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason DeStefano [mailto:destef at destef.com] > Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 6:17 PM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] <WAS backup> SLAs 4 DSL > > > Am I reading right? 3x the cost of DSL for a T1? Where do > I sign up? > > > At 03:47 PM 2/19/01 -0600, you wrote: > > > > > >Yes, I have to agree that DSL uptime can be real pain...when > the company > >relies on that little copper pair as a "lifeline" to the > outside world. > >We've got several clients who have DSL service from other > providers and > >have us deal with the web site/e-commerce/marketing/consulting. It's > >almost funny to have them explain how dependent they are on that > >connection and the fact they've given *no consideration* for a backup > >means of connecting to the 'net in the event of an outage. > > > >...then I go into the story about why we have a T1 vs a DSL.... > ><begin alphabet soup> > >"No SLA for DSL" -- bad > >"100% uptime SLA for T1" -- good <only about 3x the price too> > > > >mission critical and DSL don't go in the same sentence. > > > ><slaps forehead> > >sorry for rambling...it's a slow Monday > > > >MK > > > > > >On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 jeffr at odeon.net wrote: > > > >> > >> Argh, don't get me started on Qwest (oops, looks like I > just did). They > >> dropped my DSL connection early friday morning (about 5:00 > judging by my > >> log files). This was reported to them at about 8:30am. > It took until > >> 5:00pm to convince them that there really was a problem > and that it wasn't > >> on my end. By then it was too late to do anything about > it friday, so it > >> had to wait until this week. Their current expected repair time is > >> tomorrow afternoon. > >> > >> They absolutely refused to even look at the problem unless > I was right > >> next to the router (a little Cisco 675) with a Win9x box > connected to it. > >> Oh, and the Win9x box had to have their connection > monitoring utility > >> installed on it, even though all the stats they were > looking for are > >> available directly from the router itself. > >> > >> It's really bad when you have to explain basic networking > to the people > >> you have to call for support for your internet connection... > >> > >> Jeff > >> > >> > >> On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Shawn Fertch wrote: > >> > >> > I have to admit that at this point in time, I'm glad > that all of my data > >> > that absolutely "must" be backed up fits on a nice 100MB Zip disk > >> > (actually it totals about 25MB). The rest of it, such > as dowloaded > >> > program files and patches (damn windows crap) I download > at work, burn > >> > to a CD-R or two and bring home to work. That way I'm > not spending > >> > literally days downloading at home on my pathetic 56k > line. Who knows, > >> > by the time my install date comes around (March 21st > comes around) for > >> > ISDN, DSL will finally be available to me. Not likely. > Gotta remember, > >> > I'm dealing with Qwest.. > >> > > >> > Shawn > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> tclug-list mailing list > >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org > >> https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >> > > > >-- > >________________________________________________________ > >ReadyNET Go!, Inc. - Building your Business on the net > >________________________________________________________ > > > >Mark J. Kroska > >MIS Director > > > >320.656.0765 Voice > >888.447.3239 Toll Free > >320.203.7052 Fax > >http://www.readynetgo.com > >mailto:mkroska at readynetgo.com > > >________________________________________________________ > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >tclug-list mailing list > >tclug-list at mn-linux.org > >https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >