My office is in San Jose, which likes to call itself the capital of Silicon Valley. The best connectivity I can get is either a consumer-grade DSL connection fo

My office is in San Jose, which likes to call itself the capital of Silicon Valley. The best connectivity I can get is either a consumer-grade DSL connection for approx $60/month, or a symmetric T1 for approx $500/month. I can't get Comcast "business class" unless I want to spend tens of thousands of dollars trenching someone else's parking lot for the installation. The same was true at my 2 previous office locations, so it's not like the current setup is an anomaly. If I wanted to be right in the middle of downtown San Jose, I could be in the same building as MAE-West and could probably get sweet connectivity - but that location would make my clients sad (parking is tough and not free) so I'm not gonna do it. I shared office space for awhile with a guy who had a fixed wireless install - it was OK (the connection was fast but sometimes flaky) but it still amazes me how tough it is to get meaningful connectivity in a major metropolitan area on the West Coast. DSL in that building was nigh-impossible because the copper wiring in the building was damaged in some way that the landlord and the phone company collectively refused to fix.