emptywig
Huh? What?
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Pasadena, TX
| What should I expect to pay for 1.5/1.5 and a SLA in Houston
Hi all,
Yeah, that's basically my question. We need to get a reliable broadband connection in the Greenway Plaza area of Houston. We would like to at least have a symmetrical 1.5/1.5 connection, with a static IP. We run our own email, but no webservers.
Much of our business is done completely through email, so reliability is paramount.
What should I realistically expect to pay for something like this.
Thanks in advance!
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Jahntassa
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join:2006-04-14
Conway, SC | Did you see if Speakeasy will service you?
I know in the LA area (which doesn't help you) it's somewhere around $500-$600/mo. |
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LBDSL
Lightning Bolt
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join:2002-01-07
Auburn Hills, MI
| Depends on a number of factors, your exact location will be the key factor.
Assuming it is available, you could look at SDSL 1.5, or step up a level and get a full T1, all depends on your location.
however ballpark figure $200-2000/month (yes I know it is a wide range)
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Kibbles
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join:1999-07-31
Mission Viejo, CA | reply to emptywig
I had a T1 at my house for a year through »www.megapath.com/products/broadb···Type=T1a and it worked well....you could even try a SDSL line. |
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emptywig
Huh? What?
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join:2002-08-05
Pasadena, TX
| reply to emptywig
Thanks everyone for your responses, and sorry for originally posting in the wrong forum.
We're in an office building (One Greenway Plaza). Currently we're being served by AT&T-Yahoo Business DSL, but they only seem to be able provide us a max of 384kbps before the connection gets flaky. We're paying about $80 a month for that 384k.
If that's as good as AT&T can do, would someone else delivering DSL or SDSL be able to do better?
There is one company in the building but they're really oriented towards really heavy users, and they were talking around $2000 for their service. The boss talked to them so I don't know exactly what they were offering, but that's way out of the ballpark. We've only got about 6 people using email.
We don't need a huge amount of bandwidth, but we do push out 3-5 MB emails fairly regularly (PDFs), so we need _some_ upstream speed.
Thanks again for all your help!
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LBDSL
Lightning Bolt
VIP
join:2002-01-07
Auburn Hills, MI
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January 11th, @01:01PM
| Based on that location, it looks like you are about 10,000 wire feet from the CO, just outside the reach of SDSL 1.5, SDSL 1.1 may be do-able, but it would depend on the real world loop distance.
As for what you have with at&t right now. I would guess that is ADSL, so yes SDSL is very different.
You can certainly do a Full T1 at that location with SLA (SLA's will very by ISP/carrier).
So cost wise for a T1, $400-600/month
Cost for SDSL options, under $200/month
If you want a real quote, feel free to PM me, or post a request over here: »ISP b2b etc
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emptywig
Huh? What?
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join:2002-08-05
Pasadena, TX
| Hi all,
OK, so, my client told me about an offer she got from a company called Maxxon (I think). What it is is a 1.5 T1 line that (as best I understand her) will carry both the voice and data. Apparently the 12 phone lines will share the bandwidth with data dynamically, and if fewer phone lines are in use more bandwidth will be available. I'd say on a busy day there might be 6 lines in use at any one time.
They guarantee a minimum data rate of 768 kbps up and down, going as high as 1.5 Mbps. One static IP, our email server allowed, voice mail, call forwarding, caller ID, web space, way more long distance than we need, all that kind of stuff. For a price of $628 a month and no installation charges if we'll do a three year contract. That'll actually be a savings of $120 and some change over what we pay ATT now.
I don't know if there is an SLA - we were interrupted . I'll find out later.
So, does this sound like a good deal?
Thanks again!
wig |
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LBDSL
Lightning Bolt
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join:2002-01-07
Auburn Hills, MI
| That would be a dynamic Integrated voice/Internet T1. Dynamic meaning it changes depending on the number of voice lines in use.
I personally have never been a fan of integrated Voice/data T1's. I look at it this way. You are putting all your eggs in one basket. I like to keep voice, and data separate. Just my personal opinion.
I would look at the SLA, and go from there.
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RockyBB
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Castle Rock, CO
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integrated T1 is absolutely the wrong thing to buy on a 3 year contract unless you don't expect the business to grow. If the business expands, then your increasing phone usage will be interfering with the squeezed internet bandwidth. Then everyone gets unhappy and suddenly people start to ask "who suggested we buy this?" This is especially critical if the provider cannot bond two or more circuits together...or if they can't split out voice on one and data on the other. A word on price ... most guys who aren't me will sell voice services and not mention the industry surcharges that must be added to the published price. My guess is that you're looking at an AT&T bill with all taxes and surcharges on it, and the price you're comparing to doesn't have any of that in the proposal. I've seen fixed fees add up to $150 per month in addition to the published price, in addition to the jurisdictional taxes. Again, "who suggested we buy this?" Be very careful.
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BandwidthNow
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said by emptywig  :What should I realistically expect to pay for something like this. You may find other quotes by posting a rate request @ »ISP b2b etc |
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