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[David Rasch <rasch AT raschnet.com>]

Just out of curiosity, could you give us an idea of what size 
organization you're working with? 

At $WORK, we share a T-1 among 30+ employees without issue.  Just for 
reference, this is symmetric at 1.5M.  We've setup some traffic shaping, 
and so long as you aren't doing a lot of serving across your 384k 
upstream bandwidth, I'd imagine the downstream would easily scale to 
close to 100 employees for email, and heavy web usage. 

My only point is that perhaps there's some optimization or configuration 
that could be done to make the most of the current connection. 

Alternatively, it's possible your usage patterns are considerably more 
demanding than ours and you do need to up your downstream bandwidth.

Best of luck,
David

Tony Spencer wrote:

> Funny.  I was just giving our rep a hard time about this a couple of days
> ago.  She agreed that their pricing structure was outdated and she says they
> have been discussing lowering it but seems to me that they need to come down
> A LOT.  This is why I'm looking at the Speakeasy OneLink 6Mx768k for a
> fraction of the price that TW is asking. 
>
> TimeWarner's real problem is that they don't offer a solution for small
> business who want more downstream but don't need 2Mbps upstream.  
>
>  
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michael Czeiszperger [mailto:michael AT czeiszperger.org] 
> > Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 5:39 PM
> > To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> > Subject: [internetworkers] connectivity choices for small business?
> >
> > I was wondering if the choices for internet connectivity have 
> > changed  
> > at all recently?  The 3Mx384 connection from TimeWarner has seemed  
> > slow now that I've added some more employees, and I went looking to  
> > increase the service level. What I got back was this puzzling 
> > list of  
> > prices.
> >
> > 3Mx384k for $89.95/month
> > 2Mx1M for $199.95/month
> > 2Mx2M for $299.95/month
> > 4Mx2M for $399.95/month
> > 6Mx2M for $499.95/month
> >
> > The cost differential from going from $89.95/month to $199.95 seems  
> > to make it not worth it, but are there any options? These seem  
> > expensive, but the performance still seems higher than DSL, and  
> > cheaper than one of the T's.
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