On 5/11/06, Gabriel Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Do they tend to cap upload speeds like they do for residential users?
From my experience with setting up DSL at my apartment building for my
landlord I found that most business broadband connections still have a cap on upload speeds but they are generally higher that residential versions. Do they have better uptime then they provide for the
home users? How about static IPs, reverse DNS and port blocking (such as port 25 out)?
Those all sound about right to ask. The sales rep should be able answer all of those but in my work as a web hosting tech support I've found out that many times the port 25 out issue may not even be known by the ISP's first level tech supports. In my quest for DSL for my apartment building we ended up using qwest.net as our ISP because of the unlimited bandwidth per month and 1Meg/sec upstream capabilities. I don't know where you are sending your backups but doing a traceroute through qwest.net I've found connections to uvsc, plug.org or my work all route through denver or san jose before it makes it back to utah. (and throughput to any place in utah has still been pretty good even with the extra hops) Rob (puts on his flame proof suit after his comments about qwest.net) /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
