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

Speed Uptime

Downtime

Download

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

Stability?

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Stability

Cable Despite 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.

DSL D

The signal is affected by

the distance from the

source and the condition

of the wires leading to

your building. D

In 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.

T1 T1 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?

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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.

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Cable Broadband

DSL

T1

Upload Download

Measured in Mbps

Looking at the Numbers

Cable Ranges 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). 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

CableBroadband

Upload Download

0 0.5 1 1.5 2

DSL

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.

DSL D

If out of the optimal rage or if your local provider is

still using old lines this can decrease significantly,

sometimes to unusable numbers.

SingleT1 A 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. 0 0.5 1 1.5 2

T1

Upload Download

BondedT1 You can get more by bonding the T1's - up to 12 Mbps

by 12 Mbps supporting up to 500 users.

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0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14

Bundled T1

Upload Download

What is the Difference in

Cost?

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From $60 per month

Cable Cable 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.

C

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

DSL D

For many locations the DSL offered is slow to unusable.

This usually isn’t an option for most businesses.

DSL D

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.

T1 T

New faster cheaper options are becoming available

for direct service. However companies that need to

setup now are still choosing T1.

T1 T

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?

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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)

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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.

Cable C

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.

D DSL

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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For a free in depth audit and consultation

of your business’s needs, or for more

general information, please contact us.

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With so many decisions it helps to have

guidance from an expert.

In this presentation we covered

the five most frequently asked

questions regarding the

available options for delivering

Internet Connectivity to your

business.

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