Im foaming at the mouth. I need to start my own business in a city where they are located. We always get screwed here in the midwest. At 06:36 PM 2/19/01 -0600, you wrote: >Yeah, where do I sign up? Unless you're saying 3x the cost of one of Visi's >business DSL lines which are like $400 something a month. I can get a t-1 >from my house to just about any ISP in town for around $400 a month, but >that doesn't include the ISP charges for bandwidth, that's only the charges >from Qwest. > >Too bad we don't have this here in MPLS: > >http://www.cogentco.com/home.html > >100Mbps fiber to your house for $1000/month. Unlimited bandwidth, so you >could saturate the line all day if you wanted. I think you get a whole >class C to play with too. :) > >Jay > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jason DeStefano [mailto:destef at destef.com] >> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 6:17 PM >> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> Subject: Re: [TCLUG] <WAS backup> SLAs 4 DSL >> >> >> Am I reading right? 3x the cost of DSL for a T1? Where do >> I sign up? >> >> >> At 03:47 PM 2/19/01 -0600, you wrote: >> > >> > >> >Yes, I have to agree that DSL uptime can be real pain...when >> the company >> >relies on that little copper pair as a "lifeline" to the >> outside world. >> >We've got several clients who have DSL service from other >> providers and >> >have us deal with the web site/e-commerce/marketing/consulting. It's >> >almost funny to have them explain how dependent they are on that >> >connection and the fact they've given *no consideration* for a backup >> >means of connecting to the 'net in the event of an outage. >> > >> >...then I go into the story about why we have a T1 vs a DSL.... >> ><begin alphabet soup> >> >"No SLA for DSL" -- bad >> >"100% uptime SLA for T1" -- good <only about 3x the price too> >> > >> >mission critical and DSL don't go in the same sentence. >> > >> ><slaps forehead> >> >sorry for rambling...it's a slow Monday >> > >> >MK >> > >> > >> >On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 jeffr at odeon.net wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> Argh, don't get me started on Qwest (oops, looks like I >> just did). They >> >> dropped my DSL connection early friday morning (about 5:00 >> judging by my >> >> log files). This was reported to them at about 8:30am. >> It took until >> >> 5:00pm to convince them that there really was a problem >> and that it wasn't >> >> on my end. By then it was too late to do anything about >> it friday, so it >> >> had to wait until this week. Their current expected repair time is >> >> tomorrow afternoon. >> >> >> >> They absolutely refused to even look at the problem unless >> I was right >> >> next to the router (a little Cisco 675) with a Win9x box >> connected to it. >> >> Oh, and the Win9x box had to have their connection >> monitoring utility >> >> installed on it, even though all the stats they were >> looking for are >> >> available directly from the router itself. >> >> >> >> It's really bad when you have to explain basic networking >> to the people >> >> you have to call for support for your internet connection... >> >> >> >> Jeff >> >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Shawn Fertch wrote: >> >> >> >> > I have to admit that at this point in time, I'm glad >> that all of my data >> >> > that absolutely "must" be backed up fits on a nice 100MB Zip disk >> >> > (actually it totals about 25MB). The rest of it, such >> as dowloaded >> >> > program files and patches (damn windows crap) I download >> at work, burn >> >> > to a CD-R or two and bring home to work. That way I'm >> not spending >> >> > literally days downloading at home on my pathetic 56k >> line. Who knows, >> >> > by the time my install date comes around (March 21st >> comes around) for >> >> > ISDN, DSL will finally be available to me. Not likely. >> Gotta remember, >> >> > I'm dealing with Qwest.. >> >> > >> >> > Shawn >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> tclug-list mailing list >> >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> >> https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> >> > >> >-- >> >________________________________________________________ >> >ReadyNET Go!, Inc. - Building your Business on the net >> >________________________________________________________ >> > >> >Mark J. 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