Connectivity Research

Brittany Robison Robert Farrow Jr

Chris Denning Tony Bates

WEB 230

So many choices

Where to begin ???

ProductsDSL

T1

WEB HOSTING

E-MAIL HOSTINGVOIP

DIAL UP SERVICE

24 HOUR SUPPORT

Reviews(How Do They Rate)

&

Percentage of Up-Time(How often do they go down?)

In

Customer Service Response Time

Speed

If this were a 1MB picture

56 Kbps Modem (normal dial-up speed) It would take 2.5 minutes to download.

256 Kbps (basic broadband) It would take 33 seconds to download.

1.5 MBs (dedicated T1) It would take 6 seconds to download.

3.0 MBps It would take 3 seconds to download.

6.0 MBps It would take 1.5 seconds to download.

Costs

can vary depending upon many factors, but

speed

Is the most relevant

Earthlink

Covad Communications

&

How They Stack Up  Convad Communications Earthlink

Phone /VoIP Yes Yes

Web / E-Mail Hosting

Yes Yes

  DSL*(SDSL) T1 DSL*(SDSL) T1

Monthly Cost *$269.95 $389 $119 $359

Bandwidth 1.5Mbps 1.5MBps 1.5Mbps 1.5MBps

Installation Cost Free Free Free Free

24 hour Support Yes Yes Yes Yes

Uptime Guarantee 99.90% 99.90% 99.90% 99.90%

E-Mail Addresses 15 15 25 25

Static IP Addresses 5 5 8 8

Equipment purchase

Free Free Free Free

*ISP’s vary in their interpretations of DSL which can run from 256Kbps to 3Mbps. Also, It is important to note that 1 MBps (megabyte per second) is equivalent to 8Mbps (megabits per second) or 1 byte = 8 bits.

Earthlink

Server Hardware PowerEdge 2900 III:Dual Core Intel® Xeon® E5205, 6MB Cache, 1.86GHz, 1066MHz FSB

2nd Hard Drive:250GB 7.2K RPM Serial ATA 3Gbps 3.5-in HotPlug Hard Drive

Additional Memory:2GB 667MHz (4x512MB), Single Ranked DIMMs

Operating System:Windows Server® 2008, Standard Edition, Includes 5 CALs

3rd Hard Drive:250GB 7.2K RPM Serial ATA 3Gbps 3.5-in HotPlug Hard Drive

MS SQL Server:Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 Standard (5 CAL),OEM,NFI

Network Adapter:Dual Embedded Broadcom® NetXtreme II 5708 Gigabit Ethernet NIC

Complete for $4,744

Server Software

Adobe ColdFusion 8

$1299

Bottom lineMonthly access charge for a T1 line from Earthlink….

$359

Dell Server 2900 III - Complete

$4,744

ColdFusion 8 – Server Software $1,299

Total………………...............…$6,402 (Down) $359 (Monthly)