said by kamm :

It's 3Mb down and 3Mb up, not 9Mb - the '3x3' moniker is quite a stupid, confusing marketing idea, I agree.

said by threecheese :

I currently have a speakeasy T1 (1.5Mb/s, low latency).
I am considering switching to the new Business Ethernet, with 3 3Mb connections bonded together. They are the same price per month.

Can anyone tell me which one I am better off using? I run several websites on the connection, as well as a terminal server with about 7 users all across the country. I am happy with the speed, but could definitely use more. I do not use so much bandwidth that I saturate the T1.

Speakeasy doesn't give many details about the connections, except that they are 3Mb/s.

Thank you so much!!

said by paule123 :

As far as I can tell the only downside to this new SE ethernet service is they are reselling an XO product and from what I gather XO isn't the greatest provider. (peering not as good as ATT, VerizonBusiness/MCI/UUNet, etc.)

said by krosburg :

Just want to make a comment about Speakeasy reselling ANYthing from XO -- this is not good at all. I am currently considering switching from XO to Speakeasy for the T1 (1.5) service and have had a really awful experience with XO over the years.

said by lorennerol :

I have a 3.0/3.0 order in for a client right now. I'll report back after cutover to let everyone know how it's going.

said by cooldude9919 :

Let us know the lead time, actual throughput, and maybe a few trace routes. Are you going through xo or speakeasy?

said by danggang :

We had Business Ethernet (10mb symmetrical) installed at my company's HQ about two weeks ago. Prior to that we had Speakeasy's 3mb bonded T1 service for about two years. Prior to that, we had SDSL service with Speakeasy, and I've had Speakeasy DSL in various forms at home for about 8 years. So far I am not impressed with the BusE service. Install issues (of which there were plenty) aside, the service has not proven to be anything like as reliable as my T1s were. As others have pointed out, Speakeasy is reselling XO service here: the installers are XO field techs, and the circuit is connected to XO's network. This makes troubleshooting difficult, since the customer can't communicate directly with a tech who's looking at the back end of the circuit. Instead, messages have to be relayed back and forth via SE (who, in turn, basically just has to take XO's word for what's going on). Also, all XO (and, unfortunately, some of the SE techs I've dealt with) seem to care about are speed tests. I haven't had any latency issues (around 6ms pings from my router to XO 's nearest POP), but I have been plagued with reliability issues. The connection hiccups, and at times just goes down altogether. Further, neither SE nor XO take responsibility for the router with this service, so you're left on your own to solve any router configuration issues -- or even just determine if there might be a router configuration issue. (To their credit, SE is helping me with some of this, even though they don't have to.)

Anyway, I haven't given up yet, and this is just my personal experience; other customers are obviously using the BusE and are apparently having better luck than me (I can't find any discussion on the topic, other than here). If anyone else has this service, I'd appreciate hearing your experience with it, with the Hatteras box, and with XO's network and tech support.