Just need opinions

[mrblonde]

Hi,
My company is moving too far away from a hub to get DSL or Cable access. We are looking into ISDN but I belive the rate is going to be too slow. We will have 50 users in a month or so. I'm wondering if anyone has used a satellite ISP like direct duo before and how reliable/consistant thier 400k transfer rate is. Also, we looked at T1's fractional or otherwise, and that is not a budget we want to jump to. We were quoted 959.00 a month including the local loop. We currently pay 49.95 a month for Qwest DSL. The options I've looked into are cable: to far away IDSL: to slow DSL:to far away ISDN:to slow T/1: to much. Anyone got a good opinion here?

Thanks...
Mat

 

[Eguy]

Hi Mat;

This is what I have heard.
Satelite downlinks are indeed fast, but remember that you cannot directly uplink to the satelite. All requests still go to the ISP via modem.

With 50 users this may be incredibly slow.

Ed

 

[iSeriesCodePoet]

I have no expirience with actually using one, but you should consider what kind of weather you have in the area and how often (and how critical it is). Just yesterday, my satellite TV went out because of a huge storm. There is two way satellite communications (

http://www.starband.com,

http://www.directpc.com).

I have lost my satellite twice in one year due to storms (one ice storm, and one thunder storm). Verry good, but if you need it for mission critical stuff, you have better have a back up plan.
Mike Wills
RPG Programmer

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[dkediger]

So the bigwigs who decided on the move didn't factor this into evaluating the costs of the move, eh?

You might also check into point to point wireless. If you can find an ISP that supports this it could be a good solution. We utilized it for about 18 months until we grew into a T1.