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["Tony Spencer" <tony AT tonyspencer.com>]

My setup is small with no more than 4 people connected at a time but I've
got a lot of processes that eat up a bit of bandwidth such as pulling down
backups of databases from a colo. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Rasch [mailto:rasch AT raschnet.com] 
> Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 10:12 AM
> To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] connectivity choices for small 
> business?
> 
> 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  She agreed that their pricing structure was outdated 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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