Comment Re:Oh, come on! (Score 1) 556
i wonder if the you compare the redundancy you could get with multiple internet services, ie both cable AND aDSL: cost, bandwidth, price and to one T1 line.
some one previously noted that the price of a T1 in their area is approx. $400/month or so. i know for a fact, that dsl and cable combined in my area would not cost that much, ie about $90/month or so. combined, theoretically you are pretty much guaranteed up time, having two different redundant ISPs, possibly with load balancing, etc etc etc, and bandwidth less than, but close to 1.5 mbit/s.
both services in my neighbourhood average around 300 KBytes/s.
if up time is so important, one concievably could get as many internet connections you like from your neighbours etc etc, and between all your neighbours, their ISPs and your MULTIPLE ISPs you should have one or a more links always working connecting you to the internet.
in that case a mission critical service could survive if one of their many links went down for a few days because they have such high redundancy, and load bearing.
in summary:
i wonder if the cost of redundancy between 2 different ISPs would be justified, using cable and DSL internet, when comparing uptime with a T1, if the bandwidth combined between the cable and the dsl would be only slightly less ( and costing substantially less).
lastly:
has n e one tried this?
some one previously noted that the price of a T1 in their area is approx. $400/month or so. i know for a fact, that dsl and cable combined in my area would not cost that much, ie about $90/month or so. combined, theoretically you are pretty much guaranteed up time, having two different redundant ISPs, possibly with load balancing, etc etc etc, and bandwidth less than, but close to 1.5 mbit/s.
both services in my neighbourhood average around 300 KBytes/s.
if up time is so important, one concievably could get as many internet connections you like from your neighbours etc etc, and between all your neighbours, their ISPs and your MULTIPLE ISPs you should have one or a more links always working connecting you to the internet.
in that case a mission critical service could survive if one of their many links went down for a few days because they have such high redundancy, and load bearing.
in summary:
i wonder if the cost of redundancy between 2 different ISPs would be justified, using cable and DSL internet, when comparing uptime with a T1, if the bandwidth combined between the cable and the dsl would be only slightly less ( and costing substantially less).
lastly:
has n e one tried this?
