 Review by limegrass69 
UPDATED: 1.4 years ago
member for 1.4 years, 442 visits, last login: a few hours ago
 Purchase,Westchester,NY
 $2700 per month (12 month contract)
 about 60 days
 "Easy, painless install"
 "A bit pricey for a smaller business"
 "Get it"
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We were using CLEC T-1 (Sprint) for data, and CLEC PRI (Paetec) for voice. Never really had any issues with the data side, but had several local loop (Verizon) outages on the voice PRI. Also ran into an issue with the CLEC where they did not properly allocate our phone numbers to us, and we ran into some inbound call routing issues. Our choices were limited due to our landlord. We wanted a single carrier who could accept full responsibility for our voice and data service, and provided a SLA.
After some pressure, the landlord finally caved and allowed Lightpath to wire the building. We chose the 10Mbps/50,000 minute data/voice bundle. They installed a fiber terminal in the basement and ran 4 Ethernet cables from the basement to our office. We use one each for voice and data, and there are two spares.
Lightpath provided a managed Cisco 1850 router for the data side, while the Ethernet cable plugged into the PRI card in our telephone switch.
The install process took longer than expected due to some construction issues with the fiber loop (Cablevision and the landlord had some "issues" to iron out).
We have been with Lightpath for over a year now. The service has been solid, we consistently get the contracted speeds, there is little latency, and we get good pings. Our voice circuit has never dropped to our copper POTS backups. I'd highly recommend them. An added bonus for us was that Cablevision pulled their cable plant in along with the fiber, and we were able to provide video to our employees.
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