[COLUG] Business net access in Dublin

[Angelo McComis]

Did I miss something? The kids get "home" and fire up their connections... Do they live in the office? Or is the business an at-home business with RR biz class at their residence?

I'll assume this is a home-based biz. Biz class at home is bogus unless you need a  guaranteed static IP. Even then, you still don't get control over your RDNS, and they refuse to honor any SLAs on uptime. IMHO, its the same as residential service but at twice the price.

If his business is indeed this heavy a user as you say, Time Warner Telecom offers ethernet connectivity at any speed you desire, up to 100mbps over standard copper Cat5.

Angelo

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Maxwell <dmaxwell at columbus.rr.com>

Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 12:48:01 
To:colug432 at colug.net
Subject: [COLUG] Business net access in Dublin


I've got a client who's expanding his business in Dublin.  The office is in 
Tuller Park Road pretty close to the Target.

They've hit the wall with Business Class RoadRunner.   As soon as the kids get 
home and fire up their P2P clients and hit their MySpace pages, they become 
unable to reliably recieve faxes or make calls over their IP phones.

The problem is bad enough that I set up a Hylafax server for them at another 
site (fun fun in itself!).

They are currently mulling two options.   AT&T will sell them either three 
768K DSL lines or 1 T1 and a set of fixed IPs.  Without a doubt, the DSL 
lines will have waaaayyy more bandwidth but they absolutely need reliable IP 
telephony.  And it is a case of install 1 or the other.

Anybody familiar with the business class DSL service there?  Can you run IP 
telephony over it OK? Are there other options?

I really didn't have an answer for him but told him that apart from the 
obscene amount of money for the T1 that the DSL would be faster overall but 
that he may need the T1 to get closer to some sort of guarenteed latency for 
his fax/phones.

Thanks

Dave

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