On 5/15/2014 2:22 AM, Tom Metro wrote:
cost effective for a home office
You can get a T1 from Cogent for $400/mo. There's also the Cambridge Bandwidth Collective, which can get you a T1 for less than that. Support is on a do it yourself or wait for a volunteer to have time basis however at the CBC.
I suspect that the problem with the area on the price/quality curve in between $30/mo for a residential cable and $300/mo for a T1 with BGP is there is not that much demand, so no economies of scale, so relatively higher price and worse quality than you would expect if the curve was smooth.
My suggestion: get 2 of the cheapest residential connections you can find and set up a router to switch between them as one or the other is down.
You asked about static IPs however. That is thornier. You could probably rig up something with 2 bad providers as I suggested using dynamic DNS, but it seems to me you would be better off getting a real or virtual server in a data center, which these days is usually less than $100/mo, and then home connections purely for your own access out to the internet.
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