I actually spoke with a Covad rep today about setting my home up with a T1 .... might be nice, $300 though.
Sick of TimeWarner Cable... Options?
- Thread starter LotsOfZeros
- Start date
- Status
No definitely not. T1 is just 1.54Mbps up and down symmetrical. Very slow by today's standards.
Your relaibility issues are caused by two possible things: 1. modem overloading from too many connections (torrents) or 2. poor signal quality on the cable.
#1 can be only be fixed by a hacked modem with more RAM or stop using torrents so much
#2 should be checked by the cable company. Signal quality can be lowered by splitters, poor cable, cable running too close to AC electrical, etc.
There are special routers that can handle two WAN connections for load balancing but they can be pricey. Without a load balancer, you'd need to hard code the routing tables to direct your traffic thru those two connections depending on the destination. Not exactly helpful or easy to maintain. If you wanted to use a specific connection just for torrents then it'd be easier to setup a dedicated system connected to that WAN connection. There is a linux program out there that acts a torrent downloader but you can control it from another computer. Forget the name though... this might be it: TorrentFlux - PHP BitTorrent Client
Hire a Linux/BSD super-nerd to build a mini-PC router for you. Find him at your nearest engineering program. Buy him a case of beer, a stack of pizzas, throw in $100 or so. He can do it in a few hours and the hardware shouldn't cost more than another $200.
I sell T1s ( figured others here would as well, but could be wrong). Believe me people who need it for business go for the reliabililty and don't compare it to residential internet speeds. Its not apples to apples. There is a reason business clients get business services and dont just say " oh wow Comcast can give me X Mbps."
Prices have really come down as well, $300? Everything was over $1000 when I started. I think most of my Covad accounts are $329 and up, but thats all location specific. I have a lot of companies paying $700-1000 for such slow speeds.
I'm not saying it's something you need ( and besides T1s there is a lot of other shit I offer, but I leave that to my other people). just in my experience if something is really for business use the residential offerings are just not reliable regardless of advertised speed and equipment. Then again 99% of leads I get for home businesses are guys who decide they need a T1 for some reason but want to pay $50 a month.
That said there's been a lot of good advice from other posters and personally I just use residential cable internet. Where I live I think options are Roadrunner, WOW!, or Insight. I used Comcast for years and now use one of those guys.
Prices have really come down as well, $300? Everything was over $1000 when I started. I think most of my Covad accounts are $329 and up, but thats all location specific. I have a lot of companies paying $700-1000 for such slow speeds.
I'm not saying it's something you need ( and besides T1s there is a lot of other shit I offer, but I leave that to my other people). just in my experience if something is really for business use the residential offerings are just not reliable regardless of advertised speed and equipment. Then again 99% of leads I get for home businesses are guys who decide they need a T1 for some reason but want to pay $50 a month.
That said there's been a lot of good advice from other posters and personally I just use residential cable internet. Where I live I think options are Roadrunner, WOW!, or Insight. I used Comcast for years and now use one of those guys.
Well, they said they would be here today "between 11am and 2pm". They even called ahead this morning to confirm.
Here I sit at 2:38pm and still no cable guy.
Screw them, my time is worth more than this.
Here I sit at 2:38pm and still no cable guy.
Screw them, my time is worth more than this.
plugged into my PC - squatting on the neighbors blazin' wifi. i'm a cheap son of a bitch. once i start earning i'll look at my options. til then, going with what works.
Yeah, I got the PC5750 for when I travel (can't depend on the wifi at the Hilton). I use it as a backup.
- Status