[ale] OT - DSL

[Geoffrey]

Charles Marcus wrote:
>>From: Geoffrey [mailto:esoteric at 3times25.net]
>>Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 9:09 PM
>>
>>
>>><sigh>
>>>
>>>I didn't *say* these were *guaranteed* speeds, did I?  sheesh...
>>>
> 
>>Gee, what kinda business you running?
>>
> 
> Golly, hmmmm. Maybe, one where the owner of the company refused to pay for a
> T-1 when we could get ADSL for less than a tenth the cost?

There was an implied :) following that question.  But, Bellsouth and 
every other dsl provider will tell you that you have no speed or 
uptime/availability guarantees with dsl.  All will tell you if you want 
that kind of availability/bandwidth guarantees, you're going to pay more 
then $100 a month for it.

You get what you pay for.

> 
> In reality, it's worked out very well for us - I know, we've been lucky,
> but - well - there it is.
> 
> We aren't hosting anything from here (its all on Rackspace Servers), so we
> don't really need the outbound bandwidth - all we need is fairly reliable
> browsing and email capabilities.  This little $60/mo ADSL line has worked
> very well for an office of 12 that grew to over 30, and saved us a bundle
> when compared to a T-1, or even SDSL.
> 
> Charles
> 
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I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?


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