Shopping for T1
T1 providers can be best found at T1
solutions due to the good T1 pricing and service prices. If reliability
is the critical factor, purchase a dedicated T1. Reliability becomes critical
when customers or employees depend on your connection for immediate responses.
Keep in mind that if price is your critical factor you should use DSL. DSL
is ranked as a higher priority than residential DSL or ADSL. This means
it is not oversubscribed to the extent than ADSL and is subject to fewer
bandwidth restrictions.
The reliability of your connection is critical if your customers use your
connection to access your databases, your server, or the internet.
Companies whose employees depend on their connections because they host
the e-mail server in house or host web servers, their connections are critical.
Often, the most important thing to consider is reliability. If reliability
is critical to the applications you run over your connection, you should
seriously consider replacing your DSL connection with a T1. DSL is a quick
and cost effective method of acquiring
high-speed bandwidth. Nevertheless, it is not supposed to support commercial
applications or large numbers of users. A T1 connection, on the other hand,
is made specifically for that purpose.
Critical connections should be supported with a T1. In addition, a critical
connection can be viewed much like a lifeline, without which your business
would be negatively impacted. Your monthly savings of having a sub-par connections
will not make up for the loss in productivity of your employees or loss
of customers when your DSL connections gets bogged down or cut off.
Most customers are price sensitive and cannot afford the cost of a T1 which
can be as much as 20 times more expensive than a full T1
connection. Residential customers who are most sensitive to price should
not consider a T1 circuit unless then have a business reason to pay for
such a circuit and cannot access DSL service.
The majority of people do not realize that a DSL connection can be just
as fast as a T1 at 1.5Mbps. However,
the shortcoming of DSL is that it is oversubscribed. This means there is
a finite amount of bandwidth available and a customer’s speed can drop if
other customers in the neighborhood decide to use their service.
