I can't imagine you would go broke. I seem to recall that you aren't but
a couple of radio shots away from cheap bandwidth in St. Louis.
Certainly, a couple of long range high throughput radios wouldn't make
you go broke.
-Matt
John Scrivner wrote:
I tell them the fiber is down. I guess I could go broke trying to be
more fault tolerant. Please understand I appreciate your feedback but
understand that my service area does not have a single fault tolerant
broadband solution. If people want fault tolerance here then the
option is to buy two broadband connections from two providers and have
an auto-fail over router. I promote this to people who want fault
tolerant connectivity. If/when we roll out our 12 county AWS based
broadband / cell network we will be multi-homed. Until then the
economics of this would make us broke. I am not exaggerating.
Scriv
Matt Liotta wrote:
Sure it is more costly than being single-homed, but being multi-homed
is pretty important. If your single provider goes down what do you
tell your customers?
-Matt
John Scrivner wrote:
Maybe it is very costly to do? Charter Pipeline service in my market
is not multi-homed either. Neither am I at this point. I used to be
multi-homed in the days when 2 T1s did the job. It is not easy to
swing redundant fiber runs in a town that is 75 miles from the
nearest telco-hotel. When I get multi-homed fibers here then I will
probably do that through a mini-telco-hotel facility here and make
that place a new business opportunity in itself.
Scriv
Matt Liotta wrote:
It does make you wonder why the ISP in question wasn't multi-homed.
-Matt
Tim Wolfe wrote:
Thank The good Lord above that I never signed the TelCove contract
for bandwidth last year!. I mean, you really have no idea what the
local provider was doing wrong, but to turn off a school district
and fire CO on that system, COME ON!. You can bet the lawsuits
from the school district alone will make Level 3 think twice about
doing this again?. If you have an offending server, the stupid
thing has an IP address, Block it!. I would hope that Level 3 has
enough smarts to do this?. Even a little guy like me knows how to
block an offending IP address, and I am stupid, LOL!
Matt Liotta wrote:
http://gigaom.com/2007/03/14/why-did-level-3-turn-off-a-rural-isp/
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