I have at least 4 business class connections as well as the fiber but just make sure you have written permission from their sales department or at least acknowledgement that you are in the business of reselling the access. Any salesperson will give you that, they just want the sale. It gets you around their TOS.
But keep in mind that it's not dedicated, it's already shared access so way less customers per MB on it. And your ping times suffer from the get go. Bob- -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scottie Arnett Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 5:17 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WISPA] [Motorola II] Bandwidth Sources. Man, I wish I had a hosting center close. I am trying to get an idea of how many are actually using wholesale bandwidth compared to DSL/CABLE connections. Some cable providers actually let you resale their business class connections. My partner and I were discussing the pro's and con's of using a Cable business class connection. Money wise, it's a no brainer. I can get a 10 meg connection for around $100/mth and I am paying a little over $1000/mth for 6 meg Metro-E at the moment. The problems I see is they will only give you about 5 public IP's and what would happen if they get blacklisted/blocked/etc... and how fast will outages be fixed. I know I have seen posts from many WISPs on afmug and wispa lists that were using DSL/Cable connections for their sources. I thought this survey might give an idea of the ratio that are using them. For the survey, just put Hosting Center in other or group it with the first option. Here are the results so far: 1. Who do you use as a backbone provider? By this, a means of transporting your users data to a medium that eventually connects to the nationwide backbone. A national, regional, or local backbone provider that provides T1(DS1) or NxT1(DS1), DS3 or subset, Metro-E, Fiber, etc.. such as AT&T, Qwest, Sprint, etc... That provide you with at least a class C of public addresses or you can use your own. 82.4% 28 Using a competitor's or non-competitor's service such as (business or home) cable, DSL, FTTH connection, that was meant for a single user account, and normally assigns less than 5 public IP's to you...(Ignoring usage policies of your provider). 2.9% 1 Other (please specify) 14.7% 5 1. a local provider AND competitor's or non-competitor's service such as (business or home) cable, DSL, FTTH connection that is meant for multi-residential use. 2. Two separate Hosting Centers 3. Local utility company that aggregates ATT Lightcore, Sprint and UUNET 4. we are our own provider with our own ip range 5. Datacenter that has their own fiber where I get a /23 2. If you are using the second answer or other... cable, ftth, or dsl, or other for backbone you are more than likely providing NAT to all or most of your customers. What are your plans when your public IP's gets banned, blacklisted, and CALEA request, etc...? 1. Contract excludes banned IP's and IP's are forwarded for our management including CALEA 2. The two hosting centers are two different companies and each has 3-10 first tier providers they 'blend' on BGP. We buy at around $12-$20 per Mbps. We have our own ARIN Public IP's, but the providers handle BGP and we just take two redundant GigE ethernets to their routers (we use VRRP for redundancy from there). Thanks for participating guys. Scottie Arnett > We have a selection that maybe should be on your list: Hosting Center. > > We buy bandwidth and rent rooftop space for PTP/PtMP from two separate > Hosting companies in two separate valleys. We've tied them into our > rings of backhauls for complete redundancy. > > Hosting Centers are great because they typically host outgoing > bandwidth and are sitting on lots of unused incoming bandwidth (which > they have on commit CIR). So we buy under their own rate because > essentially we are using bandwidth they aren't using and can't sell anyways. > > And these guys are usually really easy to work with, have awesome > facilities for rack space cheap and have plenty of access to public IP > space on multiple providers in a blend for redundancy. > > They just give us a pair of redundant GigE copper hand-offs. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Scottie Arnett > Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 1:03 AM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: [Motorola II] Bandwidth Sources. > > I have made a quick survey on surveymonkey that collects data about > your bandwidth sources. I will post the data collected in a week. It > basically addresses if your primary connection to the Internet > backbone is through a wholesale provider or if you are using a > connection such as business or cable class DSL or cable for > connection. 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