DSL (scary) question

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003, Brad De Vries wrote:
...
>I hadn't heard that you could get DSL beyond the 15K
>ft range (except with IDSL).  I appreciate your
>recommendation to get customer references and further
>guarantees (I have a guarantee of 128K but I don't
>know if it's up, down or both.)  I guess I should at
>least continue talking with them.

If you're dealing with a company, they might try talking to the company
that provides their dialtone.  We're working with a company in Olympia
Washington that's beyond the range for DSL and cable isn't an option so
were using an Eartlink satellite connection which made up for being slow
and erratic by being relatively expensive.  They're in the process of
switching all their phone lines to a non ILEC provider that's bringing in a
T1 line, and will be splitting off six DS0s (6 x 64K) for the Internet,
while using other channels for their voice lines.  The savings from the
voice lines and dropping the Earthlink account result in a savings even
after paying the $135/month for the ISP feed.

Going with a fractional T1 gives considerably more reliable service as the
service level guarantees on the T1 are a couple of hours while a DSL may be
down for a week before the telco gets around to fixing it.

Bill
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