[COLUG] Business net access in Dublin

[Dave Maxwell]

On Tue May 6 2008, Angelo McComis wrote:
> 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?

It is assumed that the same fiber to cable pedastels are used for both home 
and business class.  So a densely populated area like say Dublin is apt to 
soak up bandwidth faster.  And I have had cable internet in Powell, Dublin 
and Sunbury.  What I had in Centerburg (pretty much the sticks.  amazed I 
could get RR at all.)  darn near four years ago blew away anything I had 
before or since.  That tends to back up the "oversold shared bandwidth" 
horror story I'm hearing.  

> 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.

Nope.  Office building  with cubes, real offices and everything ;-).  And they 
went for "Business Class" RR.

> 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.

I'll ask if they've bought highest possible throughput or at least as much as 
they can afford.  Thing is throughput has been a noticable but not severe 
issue.  The real bugbear is consistent degradation of latency after 3:00 or 
so.

I suppose the only real question is if AT&T business class DSL is a better 
option in this area.  They claim full 768 KBps down is possible for them.  
Although the ping is a big question mark.

Dave
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