We used Charter fiber for PTP and Internet Access for a few years, a few years ago. It was OK. Way more outages than the SBC DS3 that we had at the time. (a few hours of planned or unplanned downtime in the middle of the night every month) Pricing was far better than SBC. We dropped them once we built out PTP links to a datacenter with less expensive bandwidth.
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Kristian Hoffmann <[email protected]> wrote: > After about a year of getting the same response from AT&T after multiple > order requests at different locations across our network, the guy in > charge of building out fiber for the region called and said "what in the > world are you guys doing?!?" He ended up giving us the location of a > few fiber terminals in the area. We found the ones closest to our > network, made an agreement with a tenant nearby, and did a wireless PtP > to connect it to our network. > > Moral of the story, we were shooting in the dark until we had an "in" in > the right department at AT&T. > > On a related note, does anyone have an experience with Charter's fiber > services? > > > -- > Kristian Hoffmann > System Administrator > [email protected] > http://www.fire2wire.com > > Office - 209-543-1800 | Fax - 209-545-1469 | Toll Free - 800-905-FIRE > > > On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 22:33 -0500, Roger Howard wrote: >> Quick alert to those who are not aware... back when I was running my >> business on T1 lines, I just assumed that when I was ready, I could >> order a T3 and upgrade my bandwidth. Not so. >> >> Just because you can get a T1 doesn't mean you can get a T3 without >> huge buildout costs. I was quoted $400,000 dollars to upgrade to a T3. >> I managed to get around it because otherwise AT&T would have had to >> install a high count copper line down my road to be able to keep >> offering POTS service here, so I got lucky, and had a free install. >> But you may not be that fortunate. >> >> I just thought if I posted this, it might give some people a heads up >> to start planning for more bandwidth when you're coming close to >> needing t3 type capacity. >> >> Thanks, >> Roger >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
