Good Morning, Folks: I'm in the midst of taking a look at re-doing our internet service. We currently have a sychronous DS1 line (1.5Mbps in and out) which, being the non-profit we are, has been all we've been able to afford based on what we have. This DS1 line, with 24 routable internet addresses costs us about $600 month. If I go to a 36 month contract I can get it down to $450 or so.
However, we're now in a position where we need a much larger download pipe than an upload pipe, so I started taking a look at asynchronous solutions. Taking a look at Comcast they were able to offer me 20Mbps down and 2Mbps up and 13 (down from 24) IP addresses for about $95/month. Now even if that 20Mbps down actually turns out to be, say, 5Mbps down there is still a night and day difference in the cost. It is such a large difference that I'm trying to figure out what I am fundamentally missing. Based on what I know know I can't think I could make any other recommendation to my Director. And I can't think how any other service, including the one I have now, remains competitive. I feel I'm missing something fundamental here. What are the experiences anyone on the list have had? ---- Doc Kinne, AAVSO (From the Gmail Web Interface) _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
