[BC] counting the nines

[Chris Gebhardt]

Dana Puopolo wrote:
> That's why I always spec. T1s for any project I do. When I speak of four nines
> reliability, I'm talking about T1s.
> 
> Yet, you'd be surprised how many people do use cable and/or T1. 
> Tonight the cable Internet went out here for over an hour. Earlier I was
> getting 3800/70 on my 10,000/1000 cable connection. It was this way for an
> entire week late last month.
> 
> My DSL is quite stable. It's only gone out once for about 5 minutes in over a
> year. needless to say, my VOIP is all on the DSL.

DSL & Cable are fine for home or maybe office use, but reliability for 
mission critical use... well, I wouldn't go there.   T1 is better, 
but... well I am in the Internet business and I wouldn't ever rely on a 
single T1 in a truly "mission critical" environment.

One thing you could try is a DSL and other connection of your choice (T1 
or cable or...) with one of the pro-sumer grade routers that will blend 
2 gateways for you.   It's still not "the real thing" but it's pretty 
close at a price that isn't horrible.


Chris Gebhardt
VIRTBIZ Internet Services
chris at virtbiz.com | (972) 485-4125