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hiatus | And some consumers aren't sold on bundles at all... After the outages that were rampant in the Hurricane season of 2005, it quickly dawned on some people that buying all of your services from ONE company was a pretty dumb idea. While you might might save a few bucks a month, the problem is that you might find your self no services whatsoever when you really needed them at the worst times. Following Katrina, for example, a lot of people switched from the local cable providers telephone service back to the ILEC because their network was down for several weeks after a train rain over and severed a fibre run. Of course the telco couldn't provide reliable internet for nearly a week, despite the phones sort of working (no lines were down).
It practice, it is far better to spread out your services across providers instead of putting your eggs into one basket cause if that one provider has problems, you loose everything during that outage.
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| Buying all of your services from one comany is great if they have reliability.
After Katrina there were several neighborhoods in Covington that had phone and DSL restored in days (just needed a generator) while Charter couldn't get those neighborhoods back up for weeks. Bellsouth picked up a lot of customers from that. |
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hiatus | said by bogey780:Buying all of your services from one comany is great if they have reliability. Reliability can change at a moments notice. A company that worked fine for years could easily has major issues next week. In the IT industry, the concept of multi-homing partly stems from that idea. A provider could be providing you with the best service and the next thing you know, you have no service due to an outage. And the fact is that there is no provider than has 100% uptime.
The risk outweighs the benefits.
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It practice, it is far better to spread out your services across providers instead of putting your eggs into one basket cause if that one provider has problems
At one point that was a major concern. Now that I have 3G cell service from Cingular, I have a backup plan for both phone and broadband should my cable go down. Cable itself sure seems to have become a lot more reliable over the years too. I can't even remember the last real outage.
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Well... if someone in those neighborhoods had Charter for internet and BellSouth for phone they got one back in days and the other back months later. If they had both through Bellsouth they had both back up in days. If you were in the 504481 the reverse was true. Network engineering plays a huge part in it.
The only way for a consumer to be 100% protected is to pay twice as much for two links. Not viable for most. Best to just choose the best designed if reliability counts. |
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hiatus | said by bogey780:Well... if someone in those neighborhoods had Charter for internet and BellSouth for phone they got one back in days and the other back months later. If they had both through Bellsouth they had both back up in days. If you were in the 504481 the reverse was true. Network engineering plays a huge part in it. True, of course events in events like Katrina, Andrew, etc., are perhaps exceptions to the rule. You can't really use them as metrics.
The only way for a consumer to be 100% protected is to pay twice as much for two links. Not viable for most. Best to just choose the best designed if reliability counts. True there... Cable for TV... Phone company for telephone (or a VoIP comapany if you have a cell phone)... And either cableco or telco for data service, depending on which is better.
Not bundling also gives you that advantage too. You can pick from each company what they are good at and avoid what they suck at. For example, until T gets more than one HD stream on U-Verse, I probably will stick with cable. If they get line powered VoIP, though, I'll be on it like white on rice.
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