I am in the same boat. For my
workstation, I have to use Adelphia Cable. L I am too far for
normal DSL, and a business class IDSL for my backup server is over $100 for
just 192 Kbps, which is the max I can get.
Oh, BTW, 2 blocks over they have Fiber
in the street. But not my street.
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Dave,
I assume you have to be in an area with
fiber to your building. I’m in a residential area with a T-1 in my
house. It’s about $800 a month. I’d certainly like to
find something faster and less costly. But I doubt anything will be
available here fore a few years.
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I was paying $85 for 384
DSL, so for me it's a serious "perfomance / cost" improvement.
With the 2mbps up
bandwidth, this could _theoretically_ replace a T1 at less than 20% of the
cost. Still not sure I'd bet the company on THAT, though, and I'd need a lot
more than eight IPs.
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What was the rate for this business level
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Sent: Monday,
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OT: Future Broadband - Verizon Business Fios Service
I signed up for Verizon's
Business Fios (fiber optic broadband) service a couple of weeks ago, and they
installed it last week.
Now let me start by
saying that if I can buy the equivalent service for ANYTHING from anybody
BUT Verizon, I do it. Overall, their customer service stinks. I was an early
adopter of Vonage, just to get away from Verizon's phone service. And my
company was a victim of Verizon's hideous network design in hurricane
Floyd, during which I never lost connectivity but I could not move a packet
because their billing center drowned.
So when the consumer Fios
advertising blurb arrived a couple of months ago, announcing megabits of
connectivity for under $100/month, I was skeptical. I reviewed the TOS and
found that they specifically prohibit servers of any kind, and will not provide
static IPs. That killed the service for me, because I run a couple of backup
servers at home and I need the static IPs. There were other problems, but the
no-server and no-fixed IP policies were deal breakers. I called and asked
about a business grade service, and was told on no uncertain terms that
business Fios was a concept, but it was at least three years away from
implementation.
But a friend of mine down
the street called around and found a Verizon person who was empowered to create
Fios business accounts. I called her and got a static block of five IPs with
15mbps download and 2mbps upload. Straight pipe, no port blocking, no SMTP
"you gotta host with us" BS.
The order process was very
easy, and the order taker was great. She wanted to be sure she understood
what I needed, and she needed to be sure that there was a good match between my
needs and their offering.
The installer was gracious
from the start to the end, even to the point of asking me for a brush so he
could clean the snow off his shoes before he entered the house. I could not ask
for a better installer. He spent four hours setting up the physical stuff, but
he had only done non-business installs before. Not surprising, since they are
still not promoting Fios as a business service. I spent two minutes
setting up the router for a static IP, another two showing him how to do it,
and about ten to fifteen minutes explaining the difference between dynamic and
static IPs and the like. (The installer's lack of experience was the only
negative I can point to, and I expected it since Fios is primarily a home
service.)
I am not easily impressed,
but I have only one word to describe this service: WOW!
I am getting 15+mbps
consistently from test sites. My VPN to the data center runs almost as fast as
my LAN here at home. My backup mail server is running without a hitch, as is my
backup DNS. I have had zero downtime since the service was installed, unlike my
Covad DSL service which had downtime several times a week.
Anyway, sorry for the
length of this, but I thought it would be interesting to all to see where the
telcos are going for broadband. Their future clearly is fiber, and so far it
looks really, really good, at least at Verizon.
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