Hello,
> provides guaranteed bandwidth from 256Kbps to 100Mbps
We have a box co-located with some local mom-and-pop ISP's (a merger
has occurred and both claim I am a customer of the other). I am
looking for a professional co-location company and abovenet has been
highly recommended.
But I now show my mom-and-pop customer perspective because I do not
understand what a guaranteed bandwidth of 256Kbps means.
My boss says we are currently connected via multiple T-1's and why in
the world would we want to reduce it to 256Kbps. Of course common
sense says that everyone at this ISP is connected via the T-1's but
how in the world could I argue that guaranteed bandwidth of 256Kbps
is better than a shared connection via multiple T-1's?
If someone begins to upload a 30 megabyte file (it happens) to our
server, how will that impact on our bandwidth? Will it not consume
all the bandwidth and thus make the web server extremely sluggish?
I have not found any sort of basic explanations of how this might
work. I recently uploaded a 25 meg file to the server via ftp and
while doing that I was on the website just to see if responsiveness
would change but I could not preceive any difference. I wonder if
because at that time I just consumed more of those T-1's. And then I
think that I could not do this with the guaranteed bandwidth of
256Kbps (which is better for all but worse for me).
Anyone with some explanations or websites where I could learn more
about this?
Thanks,
Peter
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