alisowski
join:2007-06-07
Muskego, WI
| reply to rvdsabu44
Re: Understanding T1 benefits
I do work for a manufacturing plant that has about 75 computer users. We had a 6/1.5 (Maybe 6/.768, I can't remember) DSL connection. It was ALWAYS going down. I don't know if it was the lines or the fact that AT&T would only provide us with support on really shabby home user routers. I considered buying a decent firewall or router that did PPOE but if there were any problems AT&T wouldn't touch the situation. After a month where we were without internet access for about 10 business days the President of the company decided enough was enough. $100 for DSL that cost a bunch of money in business problems or $400 for a T1 line.
The T1 line came in, complete with a good Cisco router and has been stable (It has gone down for a few hours three times in a year) compared to what it was before. I'll tell you one thing, I had to start cracking down big time on what users were doing. With the DSL connection users were allowed to stream audio/video/whatever they wanted (Company policy). Once the T1 came in bandwidth was a premium so I had to put an end to all of that.
Time Warner wouldn't lay Cable in the area because construction costs would be too high and there wasn't enough demand for it, or I would have gone with that. I don't know how many ISDN connections you have (128/256/384) but don't expect enormous speed boosts from a T1....reliability/support are the main advantages |
