DSL service:
FYI, DSL speeds vary depending on a lot of things. With my service, I can
choose from speeds of 256k up to 4 meg, and it just takes a phone call to
change it. Currently I am paying for 512k, but I get at least twice that
speed from it.
Troy
===== Original Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at 5/16/01 6:23 pm
>Hi Bill,
>
>Here is a table from the IIS Resource Kit (pg. 51)
>type, speed, 5k page/second
>----, -----, --------------
>modem, 28.8k, 0.5
>modem, 56k, 1
>ISDN, 128k, 2
>ADSL, 640k, 11
>T1, 1.5M, 28
>10Meg#, 8M*, 136
>DS3/T3, 44M, 760
>OC1, 55M, 880
>100Meg#, 80M*, 1360
>OC3, 155M, 2650
>OC12, 622M, 10580
>1Gig#, 800M*, 13600
>
># = Ethernet
>* = Best Case
>
>Hope this helps
>Ben Johansen
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: "Bill Downall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 19:00:45 -0500
>Subject: Re: Tango through SDSL?
>
>> Great thoughts and help on this thread so far. Yes, I also have DSL at
>> mine own home office. I pay considerably more than the typical
>> household DSL cost, and for the extra $$$, I not only get the
>> synchronous (two-way) speed, but also get 90 to 100% of the rated
>> speed all the time.
>>
>> It took a lot of tinkering by tech support and the phone company to get
>> it to really work at that rate. When it was first installed, it was not
>> noticably better than a modem.
>>
>> The real DSL question, then, is not really a DSL question, but a
>> bandwidth question. How much web serving/tango serving can we get
>> for a certain bandwidth (understanding that the bandwidth shared with
>> the internet business going on at the workstations in the office.)
>>
>> For their location, in an industrial park, I would guess they can pay
>> for
>> almost anything from 256kbps up to 1.5m. But they are cheap, and
>> have a board of directors that will try to get but for the smallest
>> fixed
>> monthly fees possible. I doubt 256k will be good enough, but I have a
>> "feeling" that 740k or so might do very nicely for them. Can anyone
>> confirm my "feeling" with statistics about hits per day, average query
>> times, etc, for any particular bandwidth.
>>
>> If they have "good enough" bandwidth, and a fast tango server with lots
>> of memory, I'm thinking they'll be satisfied.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> ----Original Message-----
>> From: Manuel de Aguiar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 15:08:57 -0700
>> Subject: Re: Tango through SDSL? Tango + LAN?
>>
>> > Humm..... It could be that the T1 salesperson was selling me a bill
>> of
>> > goods
>> > BUT when I check my DSL connection speed and I am the only user
>> in my
>> > office
>> > I get varian results depending on the time of day I do the checking.
>>
