said by wolfox:Telco: Okay sir, all set. It will cost $5,000 to span the fiber to your home and install an optical-copper transceiver. After that, it's $400/month to keep the fiber lit - but we guarantee up-times in excess of 99.999% in a year....sir? Sir?!
Me: (On the floor, faint.)
You can order an OC trunk line for all they care and pipe it right up through your side window if you declared it as being a pre-requisite, but they will NOT touch it or move one INCH unless you front the cash. You, me - unless you are Bill Gates, will not be receiving 108mb/sec downstream on an 802.11A equipped tablet while sitting on he john and only occupying an infinitesimal portion of your downstream.
Small businesses can't afford this. Look at Cablevision's offerings, $65 for 30/5, $25 more for 5 statics. Thats really really affordable. I am planing to buy 1 line for serving general surfing needs, and another for a collaboration website. Its for reliability (so server isnt affected by my maintenance on the LAN), and a little bit for speed (I hope I have speed problems 
). DOCSIS 2 gives 27mbs upload per node, so its not like buying 10 modems then realizing you can never get max speed out b/c you saturated the node. Overally, Cablevision's prices are very reasonable, and very fast. Sadly their dedicated fiber product (Lightspeed) starts at $1000 for 10mbs symmetric. But compared to the equivalent in T1s and T3s its very cheap.