The uptime guarantee might be useful for mission critical circuits; more appropriate is having the same bandwidth upstream and down. For us home users the big traffic is mostly downstream; we're willing to endure slow uploads because unless you are constantly submitting videos to YouTube, uploads are just not that frequent.
But if you have an e-business application the roles are reversed: you're more interested in your uploads being very snappy because they are your customer's downloads. I think that's the big advantage for any symmetrical transport technology. The bandwidth requirement -- T1/T3/OC-3/TLS/etc -- is a function of your business traffic. I've had customers who started out with T1s and worked their way up to TLS 10Mb in one technology refresh. It just all depends on your traffic load. -Mike __________________ Michel David Lowe > -----Original Message----- > From: Computer Guys Discussion List [mailto:COMPUTERGUYS- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jay Montero > Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 1:34 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [CGUYS] T1 Line > > I was in the market for a T1 line a while back and was told it was more appropriate for > business use (as opposed to DSL) due to guaranteed up times and bandwidth. > > --- On Fri, 6/13/08, Tom Piwowar wrote: > >I need a technology update. Somebody just asked me about dropping DSL for > >a T1 line. > > > >Is not T1 old infrastructure that phone vendors are looking to unload on > >the unwary? I know that T1 is regulated and comes with SLAs (Service > >Level Agreements), but I think that would have little meaning to most > >customers and would just make it more expensive than equivalent-speed DSL. > > > > > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
