Not off topic, your posting is relative to high usage ADSL pricing.
>Started getting quotes to upgrade our ISDN 128K access at the office. We
currently pay $400 for 400 megs and $220 for >the connection with no time
charges. Clear has a fibre optic link to our building and inclusive of a
router (they won't put >another WAN card in our router) their costings for
frame relay follow. Still dearer than ADSL but after 5000 meg it is
>cheaper, ie for less then we currently pay we can get unlimited traffic and
1 to 2 meg through put - I am sure I can pull then >down some more if I lean
on them...
Start by leaning on then for an update on ISDN access.
ClearNet have a flat rate "unlimited data " ISDN price that is a lot cheaper
than you are currently paying for 400megs.
I assume the $220 per month includes router rental.
>Tempest Lightning
>2Mb per second access, unlimited traffic per month, includes customer
>premise equipment.
>$649 per month and install fee of $750 - no contract, or
>$598 per month, no install free -2-3 year contract.
>Internet traffic feed is via shared bandwidth [Frame Relay] pipe, 2mb
access is burstable,
>and limited to one static IP address.
It would be nice if subtle parameters like committed data rate were included
in the blurb, "burstable" is an intangible expression which translates to
"you share a 2mb link with truckloads of other users and if you are lucky
you won't be sharing the link with mp3.co.nz".
Having said that, this is highlights how far out of the ballpark Telecom are
with high usage ADSL pricing. For some applications Frame Relay is a lot
faster than ADSL because of the low latency, what's more it is symetrical
bandwidth and usually more reliable.
Clear will get the heads up from all my high usage VPN clients but lets wait
a few days for Clear's ADSL pricing.
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Received on Tue Feb 27 05:58:36 2001