T1 and DSL

Which would you recommend for an office of about 15 people who use the internet primarily to process forms with 'important' data on a website and does ftp as well, also including syncs to a hosted sharepoint?

A big chunk of me is leaning towards T1, for the reliability, what do you people think? Your input is much appreciated, thanks in advance.

15 people? Business cable or DSL.

If its numbers I do agree with the DSL, considering the download and upload is minimal too. People that I ask tend to go for T1 coz its more stable, I cant substantiate that though, this notion of stability is why I leaned on the T1 - considering reliability is more important than cost.

I thought of that coz if the connection would be down for a day, that is like a day of no work. I just hate this side of IT god damn it...

Yes, well, a T1 line can cost upwards of $1000/mo. For an office of 15 people, it would be overkill. But if you have the budget, by all means.

Here it costs about $300 to 400. We actually have it already, and someone is well saying its not sufficient and people are contemplating on replacing it with DSL instead for the download boost so they can download music faster.

Im opting to stay with what we have for the said reasons earlier. I think Ill be out voted

In that case, yes, push to maintain your current T1 line. Unless, of course, the DSL is significantly cheaper and the original reason to switch was thus.

Alright Tegumi, thanks for the input. I really appreciate it, hope all is well with you too

Some have mentioned that as well or some variation like both dsl and the T1. Im considering it later too. There is time to figure out how to do it if ever.

How mission-critical is flawless uptime to your corporation?
How many concurrent lines are you running?

Corporations I've been employed with have always had a bigger pipe for daytime operations, and smaller (E2) guaranteed always-on links as a failover measure.

In reality, DSL is just dial up upgraded to a extent. You don't use your modem in the pc to connect to the net, but rather, I believe the network card already installed on the pc, so you get more speed, but don't forget, you're also using a phone line to connect to the net. And when I had DSL, sometimes I experienced major lag when moving from page to page, and I was the only computer on the router.

If you're looking to save some cash, look into the business class of internet. Not nearly as fast as a T1 line, but for a business as small as yours, I do believe cable business class would be sufficient. Not to mention, with the amount of money you could save, you could possibly invest in better machines, afford to give your employees a little raise, or however you see fit.

I don't run a business, but I know several people that do, so I've learned from their experiences with business class cable net.

If your office place can afford the T1, then I would suggest T1, but that would be real expensive. So I suggest go with High Speed DSL (your choice on which company or ISP for this). I worked at places where they used DSL and it works fine, also worked at places with T1 and I couldn't really tell the difference, to be honest.

No. I can see where you're coming from, but still, no.

I would say try T3 or even bonded T1(I used this as a teen when we lived behind a business and they had first released it).

T3 is crazy fast, but afa as costs go in can be about 750 a month to 1800 per month(depending on the company you use), reliability? T3 is a direct only to you line, and supports up to 45 MBps.

But there is also the option of cable, you can get 20 MBps for 250 a month, and reliability is decent(ours went down alot but we had squirrels chewing on the lines, they upgraded our lines to no-chew lines and now we are golden).

DSL is slightly limited in its data flow rate,And they wouldn't see any gain over T1(only in their heads), As the max current for standard dsl is 3MBps,


But if you want balls to the wall, download every thread on chan, and every video on youtube at the same time, go for the ridiculously expensive, ludicrously fast
OC3.....13.5 GBps......it will cost you your years salary per month.


But yeah, i would just upgrade to bonded T1, its stable, very reliable, and Part of the teleco company(which means any outage has to be fixed immediately, none of this "we'll have a semi-retarded technician come to your house and tell you it will be another 3 weeks before we fix it" that cable/dsl/satellite providers do.

Most times our net was out on T1 was when the power went out, and when it did go out that one time it was fixed within an hour.

So go with bonded T1.