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Ordinarily you would set some sort of budget and back into an offering based on what is actually available. What carrier(s) currently have service in the build
by brk 16y ago
Ordinarily you would set some sort of budget and back into an offering based on what is actually available.
What carrier(s) currently have service in the building?
Just guessing, you probably want something on the order of a T1 (1.5Mbps) to a business cable type account (2-10Mbps typical), which will be in the area of about $150ish (for cable) to $500+ (for a typical T1 loop+bandwidth).
Unless your Internet access is SUPER critical to your business, redundancies don't make much sense. If you want to cover that contingency moderately cheaply, get a Verizon wireless broadband card ($60/mo) and a router that can do basic failover (Cradlepoint, Linksys, D-Link all have good options). The upside being that if anyone travels, they can take the 3G card with them (obvious risks apparent).
- paddy_m 16y agoAre you talking about a T1 per office? a T1 for 80 people seems way underspecced. I work at a company of 4-8 people. If the internet is down for an hour, think of the cost of those salaries that is wasted. Internet access is super critical to our business. I have worked at enough places where the internet was flaky, it is not an experience I want to repeat.
- brk 16y agoNo, I was saying a T1 is the absolute low-end of what you'd want to consider for the overall space. And yes, it's not a lot of bandwidth these days, but you didn't say what people would really be doing. A standard tech operation doesn't normally need a lot of Internet bandwidth. You generally can code and test locally and then push code up to a production server. But since every operation is vastly different and you didn't give a lot of detail on exactly what people would be doing over this pipe, I could only give general answers...