Find a friend and install an802.11g
wireless link with directional antennas between your houses. Pay for his/her
Internet service. It would be worth it.
-d
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Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Way OT:
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I am in the same
boat. For my workstation, I have to use Adelphia Cable. L I am too far for
normal DSL, and a business class IDSL for my backup server is over $100 for
just 192 Kbps, which is the max I can get.
Oh, BTW, 2 blocks
over they have Fiber in the street. But not my street.
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Dave,
I assume you have to
be in an area with fiber to your building. Im in a residential area
with a T-1 in my house. Its about $800 a month. Id certainly
like to find something faster and less costly. But I doubt anything will
be available here fore a few years.
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I was paying $85 for 384
DSL, so for me it's a serious "perfomance / cost"
improvement.
With the 2mbps up
bandwidth, this could _theoretically_ replace a T1 at less than 20% of the
cost. Still not sure I'd bet the company on THAT, though, and I'd need a lot
more than eight IPs.
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What
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Doherty Sent: Monday, December
12, 2005 11:53
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Future Broadband - Verizon Business Fios Service
I signed up for
Verizon's Business Fios (fiber optic broadband) service a couple of weeks
ago, and they installed it last week.
Now let me
start by saying that if I can buy the equivalent service for ANYTHING
from anybody BUT Verizon, I do it. Overall, their customer service
stinks. I was an early adopter of Vonage, just to get away from Verizon's
phone service. And my company was a victim of Verizon's hideous
network design in hurricane Floyd, during which I never lost
connectivity but I could not move a packet because their billing center
drowned.
So when the consumer
Fios advertising blurb arrived a couple of months ago, announcing megabits
of connectivity for under $100/month, I was skeptical. I reviewed the TOS
and found that they specifically prohibit servers of any kind, and will
not provide static IPs. That killed the service for me, because I run a
couple of backup servers at home and I need the static IPs. There were
other problems, but the no-server and no-fixed IP policies were deal
breakers. I called and asked about a business grade service, and was told
on no uncertain terms that business Fios was a concept, but it was at
least three years away from implementation.
But a friend of mine
down the street called around and found a Verizon person who was empowered
to create Fios business accounts. I called her and got a static block of
five IPs with 15mbps download and 2mbps upload. Straight pipe, no port
blocking, no SMTP "you gotta host with us" BS.
The order process
was very easy, and the order taker was great. She wanted to be sure
she understood what I needed, and she needed to be sure that there was a
good match between my needs and their offering.
The installer was
gracious from the start to the end, even to the point of asking me for a
brush so he could clean the snow off his shoes before he entered the
house. I could not ask for a better installer. He spent four hours setting
up the physical stuff, but he had only done non-business installs before.
Not surprising, since they are still not promoting Fios as a
business service. I spent two minutes setting up the router for a static
IP, another two showing him how to do it, and about ten to fifteen minutes
explaining the difference between dynamic and static IPs and the like.
(The installer's lack of experience was the only negative I can point to,
and I expected it since Fios is primarily a home
service.)
I am not easily
impressed, but I have only one word to describe this service:
WOW!
I am getting 15+mbps
consistently from test sites. My VPN to the data center runs almost as
fast as my LAN here at home. My backup mail server is running without a
hitch, as is my backup DNS. I have had zero downtime since the service was
installed, unlike my Covad DSL service which had downtime several times a
week.
Anyway, sorry for
the length of this, but I thought it would be interesting to all to see
where the telcos are going for broadband. Their future clearly is fiber,
and so far it looks really, really good, at least at
Verizon.
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