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Answers to the top five frequently asked question people ask about internet connectivity for their business or company. There are many options and with those options come many pros and cons. In this presentation we go through them all explaining the specifications and what they mean for your business.
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Connectivity
Frequently Asked Questions
For Your Business
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There are three Common Options
T1
T1 like DSL is also provided
with twisted wires.
However, it is a direct and
dedicated line with many
additional options
DSL is part of a family of
technologies provided with
twisted wires – the same
wires used for traditional
phone service.
DSL Cable
Cable broadband is
provided by your local
cable TV company on the
same type of coax cable
that is used for cable TV
services.
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The Big 3 Questions
Stability
Cost
SpeedUptime
Downtime
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Upload
Price
Benefit
Two More Questions You Should Be Thinking About
What service is best for Voice Over
IP(VOIP)?
What other services are suitable for business?
Fiber Optic
Ethernet
3G and 4G
Satellite
What is the Difference in
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Stability
CableDespite the impressive speed, cable is the least stable service. This is because of it’s shared connection.
To compensate for this, a good cable provider generally runs at speeds faster than advertised.
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DSL is slightly more stable than cable and less stable than T1. The draw back however is its availability.
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The signal is affected by the distance from the source and the condition of the wires leading to your building.
DIn some
locations the signal is too weak to be
usable.A signal may be
provided, though much slower than advertised.
In some locations the signal is strong and of good value.
T1T1 wins at stability. As a direct service, your neighbors have no affect over your bandwidth. The cost to speed is hard to justify but if stability is mission critical you can’t beat it.
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Fact, if there is a major outage, whatever the cause, carriers are actually required by law to fix T1 service before they can work on other services like DSL.
What is the Difference in
Speed? 2
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For speed we use two numbers.
Upload Speed
Download Speed
These two measurements work together to form the total estimated number of users.
Cable Broadband
DSL
T1
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Upload Download
Measured in Mbps
Looking at the Numbers
CableRanges from 7 Mbps by 768 Kbps to 100 Mbps by 10Mbps and can support, on average, 20 to 50 users for a midsized company.
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This figure varies during peak hours and will usually run faster (occasionally slower).
Cable Broadband
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Upload Download
DSL
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Upload Download
Can get up to 1.5 Mbps by 384 Kbps, 3 Mbps by 512 Kbps, or 6Mbps by 768 Kbps and can support, on average, 15 to 20 users for midsized company.
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If out of the optimal rage or if your local provider is still using old lines this can decrease significantly, sometimes to unusable numbers.
SingleT1A single T1 is 1.5 Mbps by 1.5 Mbps and can support up to 50 to 100 users with guaranteed speed.
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T1's also have the ability to equally distribute bandwidth over the multiple channels on a T1 to ensure the quality of the Internet access.
T1
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 1.6
Upload Download
BondedT1You can get more by bonding the T1's - up to 12 Mbps by 12 Mbps supporting up to 500 users.
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Bundled T1
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What is the Difference in
Cost?
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From $60 per month
CableCable Broadband is a great general value. It offers some pretty impressive speeds to qualified locations at a very affordable price.
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Cable
For small businesses this is a great option because you get so much speed for far less than T1.
The instability is worth the low price because an hour or two of slow speeds wont have a costly impact.
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DSL is the cheapest option. Note, some providers require that you also get phone service so make sure that this is either included in the price or not required when deciding.
From $45 per month
DSLD
For many locations the DSL offered is slow to unusable. This usually isn’t an option for most businesses.
DSLD
However, it might be worth looking into. If you are in an area where the signal is strong and you don’t think that the stability of T1 is crucial for you business, than DSL can be a great bargain.
From $300 per month
This is by far the most expensive solution. For a company that even an hour of downtime is unacceptable, it is sometimes the only solution.
There are ways to offset the cost and increase the speed for large companies so it remains a viable option for some.
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New faster cheaper options are becoming available for direct service. However companies that need to setup now are still choosing T1.
T1T
A good alternative if available is fiber optic cable which we will look at in the next question.
What are other Options are
Suitable for Business? 4
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Although DSL, cable, and T1 Internet service are the most common ways to connect to the internet they're most certainly not the only options available.
Other Options
Fiber Optic
Fixed Wireless
Ethernet
3G and 4G
Satellite
Verizon FiOS, a Fiber Optic connection with speeds reaching 300 Mbps by 65 Mbps, is one of the best options today for medium to small businesses. Unfortunately it is not available everywhere.
Fiber Optic
The cost ranges within hundreds of dollars for 300 Mbps by 65 Mbps as opposed to thousands for a traditional, 300 Mbps by 300 Mbps fiber optic connection
For businesses that are located in AT&T territories that can't get Verizon services AT&T's U-verse, with a maximum speed of 24 Mbps by 3 Mbps, is a decent alternative per cost.
Fiber Optic
What Option is Best For Voice Over IP? (Or VOIP) 5
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If you're planning to use Voice Over IP or VOIP not all types of connections are suitable.
Not all are the same
Cable systems, although they support VIOP, are generally not tuned for it. The instability can cause issues with dropping out parts of the call and adding digital noise.
Some providers can deliver quality service. If you want to use VIOP with cable, choose the right provider.
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If you can get good service for your location, DSL can work well.
Due to limited upload speeds a small business will usually have one dedicated DSL for VoIP traffic and one dedicated DSL for standard internet traffic.
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T1 is the best option as the upload speeds are the same as the download speeds and the connection is extremely stable and optimized for this use.
For companies with a lot of phone lines using VOIP with a T1 connection helps to offset the higher cost.
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In this presentation we covered the five most frequently asked questions regarding the available options for delivering Internet Connectivity to your business. internetproviderpricing.com
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