I'm forwarding to the list so others can benefit.
>Hi Howard,
>Thank you for your good advice.
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>I'm getting the DSL line from SOURCEONE-and Iam not sure whom they
>are contracting from. Any idea about this company? who is the best
>for the DSL business?
No idea. Maybe someone else does.
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>What type of Netgear router are you currently using and does this
>support well if you connect them 10-15 stations same time? I'm not
>sure if you tried connecting using more than one computer to the DSL
>line. How is throughput when connected to as many as 10 computers?
>Thanks again for your time.
>
>Farhn
Haven't tried that many.
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>First, be careful in all residential broadband, even before you get
>to the equipment. I went through a long and painful experience with
>"business grade" DSL, which often was down for a week at a time. My
>chief problem was that there were far too many players involved, all
>delaying and fingerpointing. I directly contracted with a
>DSL-supportive ISP (then CAIS, renamed Ardent, and then renamed
>something I forget). They contracted with Covad, who ran the actual
>DSL layer 1 network over facilities leased from Verizon. Even when I
>had an obvious local loop problem, the reporting had to go from CAIS
>to Covad to Verizon, which could take 24-48 hours at each stage,
>after which CAIS and Verizon might wait 3-5 days to dispatch
>technicians independently. If there was a question of Verizon being
>at fault, then it was necessary to wait a few more days to schedule
>both Verizon and Covad technicians to be at my site at the same time.
>Just to add to the fun, the first-line ISP often had 20-30 minute
>waits for trouble calls.
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>One interesting sidebar about "business grade" DSL is Verizon has a
>4-hour response commitment for T1, fractional T1, and Frame Relay
>loops, but only 24 hour for DSL. This 24 hour often seemed to be
>interpreted as 24 business hours.
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>In frustration, I finally gave up on DSL both for technical reasons
>and the awareness that both Covad and CAIS were in financial trouble.
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>I then went to cable access with Comcast, which contracted with @home
>for the actual IP connectivity. I have nothing but good things to say
>about their tech support, although I am now experiencing SEVERE
>congestion at peak times. Comcast did not offer a business grade
>service. Of course, @home is now in apparently terminal financial
>problems, so Comcast is looking elsewhere for connectivity. I'll give
>Comcast credit for making a major effort to keep their customers
>operational, in contrast to AT&T. Still, I'm having substantial
>problems.
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>At this point, as a home-based worker who MUST have connectivity, I'm
>leaning to getting fractional T1 with dial backup.
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>Anyway, to return to your original question, I had a /29 subnet from
>the DSL provider, and an Efficient Networks (Cabletron spinoff)
>router with integral DSL modem supplied by the carrier. It had to be
>swapped out twice in a year.
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>Now, I have a Netgear router/firewall connected to the cable modem,
>and it's worked out well so far. I selected that simply because I
>knew it was compatible with a particular IPsec client I needed to use.
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>My next router will probably be a Cisco 2600 class, depending on my
>VoIP and crypto requirements.
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