phrider
join:1999-12-17
Los Angeles, CA
| reply to sasbns
Re: THE LETTER
Similar story on Cyberonic for me in Los Angeles... but I had a problem with the first line that I tried to share the DSL on. Cyberonic was willing to cancel/ reorder on a different dialtone line (that worked the second time) in a period of 2 to 3 weeks.
But I also wanted more reliability than is possible with a single DSL line (and I was very worried that PacBell would deliver another bad Worldcom DSL line before Sprint discontinued service), so I ordered a month-to-month AT&T Cable internet service, too. They got going from order to on-line in 7 days. The cable pings from my left coast location to my right coast HQ are 20-40% lower than with Sprint Biz DSL.
I have combined the two with a Nexland Turbo Pro 800 router. Pings to my office VPN (routed over the cable connection) are faster, so it seems faster some of the time. Overall throughput for big files is substantially slower than Sprint DSL (even when using both connections). The Nexland handles IPSEC VPN tunnels much better than my old router.
The monthly cost is $95 ($50 Cyberonic and $45 cable) plus installation costs of $120 or so and $400 for the dual WAN router.
Now, if only Sprint was still around, I'd have the cable as backup to the Sprint connection..... |
