Folks: I wanted to respond with thanks regarding the responses I got for my requests for "telecommunications recommendations."
I'll say that FIOS is not an option here in West Cambridge. I think my Director would die and go to heaven if I could get him FIOS, but not in this lifetime apparently. You folks basically were able to clue me in that the difference between the DS1 and Comcast was the SLA. That was valuable. Comcast business service didn't even know what an SLA was, interestingly enough. Daniel's thought on having two input streams coming into the building and managing them via a "twin" or "dual" WAN router was very interesting. I'm looking at such WAN routers now. Both Daniel and K.M. Peterson spoke of "BGPs" in terms of advertising routes. I have to say that I've not encountered the term "BGP" before along that line. What is it? Finally, David, your post regarding availability (loved the numbers!) and potential port blocking was an important point. At this point it looks like I can get and keep my current service, but get it discounted by about 20%. This savings will enable me to add the Comcast pipeline all for less than what we pay now. This will enable us to have what we want and safely test the reliability of Comcast over the long term. Thanks again, folks! The BBLISA list has, and continues to be, a critical resource which is invaluable to me, and I'm sure to many others as well! ---- Doc Kinne AAVSO (From the Gmail Web Interface) _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
