Am I reading right? 3x the cost of DSL for a T1? Where do I sign up? At 03:47 PM 2/19/01 -0600, you wrote: > > >Yes, I have to agree that DSL uptime can be real pain...when the company >relies on that little copper pair as a "lifeline" to the outside world. >We've got several clients who have DSL service from other providers and >have us deal with the web site/e-commerce/marketing/consulting. It's >almost funny to have them explain how dependent they are on that >connection and the fact they've given *no consideration* for a backup >means of connecting to the 'net in the event of an outage. > >...then I go into the story about why we have a T1 vs a DSL.... ><begin alphabet soup> >"No SLA for DSL" -- bad >"100% uptime SLA for T1" -- good <only about 3x the price too> > >mission critical and DSL don't go in the same sentence. > ><slaps forehead> >sorry for rambling...it's a slow Monday > >MK > > >On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 jeffr at odeon.net wrote: > >> >> Argh, don't get me started on Qwest (oops, looks like I just did). They >> dropped my DSL connection early friday morning (about 5:00 judging by my >> log files). This was reported to them at about 8:30am. It took until >> 5:00pm to convince them that there really was a problem and that it wasn't >> on my end. By then it was too late to do anything about it friday, so it >> had to wait until this week. Their current expected repair time is >> tomorrow afternoon. >> >> They absolutely refused to even look at the problem unless I was right >> next to the router (a little Cisco 675) with a Win9x box connected to it. >> Oh, and the Win9x box had to have their connection monitoring utility >> installed on it, even though all the stats they were looking for are >> available directly from the router itself. >> >> It's really bad when you have to explain basic networking to the people >> you have to call for support for your internet connection... >> >> Jeff >> >> >> On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Shawn Fertch wrote: >> >> > I have to admit that at this point in time, I'm glad that all of my data >> > that absolutely "must" be backed up fits on a nice 100MB Zip disk >> > (actually it totals about 25MB). The rest of it, such as dowloaded >> > program files and patches (damn windows crap) I download at work, burn >> > to a CD-R or two and bring home to work. That way I'm not spending >> > literally days downloading at home on my pathetic 56k line. Who knows, >> > by the time my install date comes around (March 21st comes around) for >> > ISDN, DSL will finally be available to me. Not likely. Gotta remember, >> > I'm dealing with Qwest.. >> > >> > Shawn >> >> _______________________________________________ >> tclug-list mailing list >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > >-- >________________________________________________________ >ReadyNET Go!, Inc. - Building your Business on the net >________________________________________________________ > >Mark J. Kroska >MIS Director > >320.656.0765 Voice >888.447.3239 Toll Free >320.203.7052 Fax >http://www.readynetgo.com >mailto:mkroska at readynetgo.com >________________________________________________________ > > > > >_______________________________________________ >tclug-list mailing list >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >