[GRLUG] NOT LINUX - broadband

[Michael Mol]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Adam Tauno
Williams<awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
>> >> Why install a DSL Circut when you can force business customers to pay
>> >> 8 -  10 times the amount for T1's.
>> > T1s don't cost anything near 8 - 10 times as much as an equivalent DSL
>> > connections.  You can get T1 connections for sub-$200 a month.
>> Including the SLA that comes with them?!
>
> Sure.  I think our lowest cost T1 is something like $189.
>
> BTW, what is the SLA for your DSL connection? :)

Comcast. And there's a reason I won't serve from home.  Though where I
work, we do use DSL, and we get techs out here within hours of
reporting service failure.

>
> Not that collecting for downtime [or even billing errors] from a telco
> is ever easy.  You need to be prepared to fight like a rabid dog;
> including just taking a lawn chair and sitting in front of the
> building's entrance.

:-/

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