In our little area DSL is not available yet. The quotes we've received for a Fractional T1 have been quite expensive. Sat may be our best option at this point.
Troy Funte
Liberty Electronics
Troy Funte
Liberty Electronics
----- Original Message -----
From: Rick Spriggle
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 4:29 AM
Subject: RE: [Vantage] [Off Topic] Internet Speeds
I have to agree with John on this one. I went with a 256k fractional T1
rather than DSL when we broke up the corporate WAN . One main reason is DSL
in our area was very unreliable at the time because I had it installed at my
house. It was worth the extra money over DSL for the TI, which was actually
cheaper than we were paying for the Sprint 56k frame relay. I don't regret
the decision yet as it has been rock solid, both reliability and speed
(except for when the truck took out the pole last summer), no problems with
large downloads ala Vantage and Progress patches, the CO can actually do
monitoring on the line conditions for us, and at any time we can crank up
the speed to 512k, 784k, or full 1.54mbps with just a phone call.
One of our vendors does an on-site vendor managed inventory and they have a
DSL line here and use VPN to connect to their main office. That connection
has been nothing but trouble, so I'm still happy with the decision.
Just my $.02
Rick
>-----Original Message-----
>From: John Sage [mailto:jsage@...]
>Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 7:17 PM
>To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: RE: [Vantage] [Off Topic] Internet Speeds
>
>
>Troy,
>
>Even though T1 speeds don't necessarily seem as high as DSL or
>Cable, T1 circuits are synchronous in terms of throughput (upload
>and download speeds are near identical) and they suffer from far
>less latency (basically the time between packets). So the net(!)
>effect is that T1s are much faster, especially for large transfers.
>
>have fun,
>john
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