On 3/1/07, Dave Sherman <thurianknight at gmail.com> wrote: > On 3/1/07, Nate Carlson <tclug at natecarlson.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Dave Sherman wrote: > > > If Eric is already spending $300/month or more on 8 analog lines, a BRI > > > line could be very cost-effective, making this is a good suggestion. > > > > Actually, in that case, a PRI would be the route to go.. BRI's are > > old-fashioned ISDN with 2 channels plus signalling; PRI's can have up to > > 23 channels (plus one signalling channel.) > > True, but a PRI is gonna cost him about $500/month. Depending on how > busy their phones are, they could "oversubscribe" 8 phones to a > 2-channel BRI line, or even get 2 BRI's and have 4 channels available. > > Now depending on what they do for Internet access, an integrated T1 > could be an ideal solution. Use 6 or 8 channels for voice, and have > the rest for data. You hit the nail on the head. We have a split T1. We don't need much bandwidth for what we do and it seems to work OK, but I do wish we had bigger pipe for ISO downloads and such.