| ....How to Tell You Need T1 Service..... | | | | sub-par connections will not make up for the loss in |
| Is it time to look for T1 service? | | | | productivity of your employees or loss of customers |
| Many people are confused when they consider | | | | when your DSL connections gets bogged down or cut |
| whether to upgrade from DSL or not. There are | | | | off. To reiterate, ciritcal connections should be |
| several factors to consider when examining you | | | | supported with a T1. |
| current DSL connection and the possiblity of replacing | | | | Many customers are extremely price sensitive and |
| it. For many people the biggest factor is reliability and if | | | | cannot afford the cost of a T1 which can be as much |
| reliability is critical to the applications you run over your | | | | as 20 times more expensive than a DSL connection |
| connection you should seriously consider replacing your | | | | (although prices have come down drastically in recent |
| DSL connection with a T1. DSL is a quick and cost | | | | months). Residential customers who are most sensitive |
| effective method of acquiring high speed bandwidth | | | | to price should not consider a T1 circuit unless then |
| however it is not intended to support commercial | | | | have a business reason to pay for such a circuit and |
| applications or large numbers of users as are T1 | | | | cannot access DSL service. Most people don't realize |
| connections. | | | | that a DSL connection can be just as fast as a T1 at |
| Reliability becomes critical when customers or | | | | 1.5Mbps. The shortcoming of DSL is that it is |
| employees depend on your connection for immediate | | | | oversubscribed. This means there is a finite amount of |
| responses. If your customers use your connection to | | | | bandwidth available and a customers speed can drop |
| access your databases or your server or the internet | | | | if other customers in the neighborhood decide to use |
| then reliability of your connection is critical. If your | | | | their service. SDSL (Synchronous DSL) is a business |
| employees depend on your connections because you | | | | class DSL and is ranked as a higher priority than |
| host the e-mail server in house or host web servers or | | | | residential DSL or ADSL (Asunchronous DSL). This |
| ASP type products, your connections is considered | | | | means it is not oversubscribed to the extent than |
| critical. A critical connection can be viewed much like a | | | | ADSL and is subject to fewer bandwidth restrictions. |
| lifeline, without which your business would be | | | | In short, if price is your critical factor go with DSL. If |
| negatively impacted. Your monthly savings of having a | | | | reliability is the critical factor purchase a dedicated T1. |