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The most bang for buck "employee benefit" I ever offered to my guys back in the earl 00's was a T1 line to their home for free. We could do this since local lo
by phil21 2y ago
The most bang for buck "employee benefit" I ever offered to my guys back in the earl 00's was a T1 line to their home for free.
We could do this since local loops to most folks were about $150-200/mo, and we already had a channelized DS3 terminated at our rack at a local datacenter for our phone banks. If you bought your own DS1 retail you'd be paying upwards of $1k/mo back then to a provider.
It was by far the best "stickiness for dollar" investment into employee benefits I've ever found back then or since.
- icedchai 2y agoI worked at an ISP that gave dedicated ISDN and 56k frame relay lines as a benefit in the late 90's. T1 would've been amazing!
- linsomniac 2y agoI worked for an ISP back in around '98, and they offered to let me terminate a T1 there if I covered the line. I got a contract from the phone company for $205/mo for the T1 and got it all set up, but they were billing me $250/mo for the line. A couple months in DSL dropped, and I got out of the T1 contract because they said they couldn't honor the contract they wrote because $250/mo was the regulated minimum price, and I got 768K DSL for $70/mo. At the time everyone was speculating that DSL wouldn't work (crosstalk across pairs as multiple people in a bundle use DSL will cause it to fail), but they were quickly proven wrong.
- wil421 2y agoBack in the day people on forums would list T1 line in their signature. My ISDN line was not worthy!
- badc0ffee 2y agoI had 1.5 Mbps DSL in 1999, and I think nearly all of my co-workers either had that or a cable modem with similar speed. I think T1s were like 5x the price for the same download speed.