The biggest problem with DSL is the telco. You pay the telco $300+ per
month for the local loop vs. $30 per month for a DSL line. Which do you
think has higher priority? If the T1 goes down, it may be down for minutes
or a couple hours. The DSL line could go down for days, as there are 0
service level guarantees with DSL. Now, that may _never_ happen, but where
would you be if it did?
Jim
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From: "Michael Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: SDSL vs T1
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> We have used sDSL from two ISPs for our webservers. The first was
Concentric and it was terrible service. The second was UUnet and their
service has been great! I don't recall it going done. We get 1 Mb both ways
for $399/mo - which is much cheaper than a T1 at $1200-1800/mo. Even a
burstable T1 at $799/mo cost more. I think the key is going to a quality ISP
instead of the cheapest in the barrel and having a good phone line to run it
on.
> - Michael Smith, TeraTech, Inc http://www.teratech.com/
>
> Donald Sparks wrote:
>
> > Mark,
> >
> > Your SDSL (Symetric Digital Subscriber Line) connection should be giving
you the same up and down so that shouldn't be a consideration. Like bill
said, you will have to consider your local providers, your access speeds,
and your gauranteed up times. I suggest checking around in your local
community with others that are using your local providers of each of these
services. I have used T1 connections and find that there is very little down
time, usually only during lightning storms. ADSL has become wide spread
throughtout my local community and I find it has quite a deal of down time,
mostly due to upgrades to the phone systems.
> >
> > Good luck,
> > Don Sparks
> >
> > ------Original Message------
> > From: "Bill Killillay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: CF-Community <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: October 3, 2000 1:50:04 PM GMT
> > Subject: RE: SDSL vs T1
> >
> > Mark
> > Thing to remember is what your getting, with the T-1 your getting the
same
> > up as down. xDSL you usually get throttled going up, but can get in
some
> > cases even faster down. I have a DSL line and I only get 256k going up,
but
> > I can pull down at 1.6 meg coming down. I host my development server
off of
> > that and it's fine, but a bigger shop may need more up. Some DSL
companies
> > will also throttle what your down speed is too, so much of depends on
your
> > providers, both of the T-1 and of the DSL. Before you just write it
off,
> > look into the pros and cons at the provider level. In the end the DSL
may
> > be better, or the T-1 may be. Hope that helps some. Just my .02.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Stewart, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 9:39 AM
> > > To: CF-Community
> > > Subject: SDSL vs T1
> > >
> > >
> > > All,
> > >
> > > We are a medium sized development shop, approximately 20
> > > developers. One of
> > > our "brain trusts" within the company thinks that it will be a
> > > good idea to
> > > switch to SDSL from a T1, just to save money. I, however, think
> > > this is the
> > > most asinine thing I've ever heard of. What I would like to know
> > > from all of
> > > you, is what do you think about this? Is there anybody out there
> > > in the free
> > > world who would consider, or is currently using SDSL for their
development
> > > and/or testing environment?
> > >
> > > Thanks for your help
> > >
> > > ~Mark
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