Which company for a leased line?

raphaelS · 24-07-2003 3:20pm #1

Hi,

I don't want to waste time asking for quotes to a lot of companies so maybe I can narrow to just a few with your help?

Is it for a company, in Dublin, with 10 employees.
Reliability and speed is more important than the price...

For the moment we're sharing the access provided with the building but this is not a realiable, pings are awfull!

Thanks for your help.
Raphael

spongebob · 25-07-2003 10:45am

Colt NTL Worldcom ESAT Eircom in approximately that order of quality and price they will all take 4-6 weeks to provision ...including Eircom

raphaelS · 25-07-2003 11:04am

Thank you Muck!

I'll stick to the 3 first...

Raphael

steve-hosting36 · 25-07-2003 12:13pm

Have you checked the wireless options too? IBB and Leap both have good offerings.

Capt'n Midnight · 28-07-2003 2:50pm

Leased lines are constant speed eg: 64Kb / 128Kb but you should be on a 1:1 contention ratio.

So they are steady rather than fast... - but you don't get contended out of it by other users,...

Also if you have another office that already has Internet access you'll probably find it cheaper to get a leased line to it and share the internet. (esp. when you take into account costs of firewall & benefits of slow file sharing)

Ro · 28-07-2003 4:00pm

In terms of quality I'd go Esat, Eircom, Worldcom. If it's only for 10 people though I'd go with DSL or Leap Wireless. Esat do 2Mb DSL for €340 a month:

http://www.esatbt.com/ie/products/access/dsl/index_Pricing.html

raphaelS · 28-07-2003 4:55pm

Thanks everybody for your reply...

I don't know exactly what kind of access we have for the moment... The only things I know are:
-It was NevadaTele.com now it is energis.com, find out from the IPs
-We are not dealing with Energis directly, this is the landlord's job. When something is wrong... it is a disaster "oh yes internet is down?!"... good reason to change.
-On the router LCD, I can see Bitrate: 512Ko...
-If I do a test here here, I get 336.8 Kbps (42.1 KBps)... The max downloading speed I got was near 64 KBps.
-The ping from or to our server are very bad for a leased line! (average today to google.com: 113ms, to boards.ie: 93ms)
-This connection is shared by (in the building) around 25 computers... so the 1:1 contention!
-Our server is used for email and FTP, so the speed can't be too slow...

Well, is a 2Mb/256K DSL (esat) for 10 PC + 1 server (mail+FTP) will be better than what we have?

Raphael

Capt'n Midnight · 28-07-2003 5:27pm

ie. 48 sites with ADSL will share the same bandwidth.
(each of which may be a warez monkey or an internet cafe or an SME or a DIVX'er or a normal resedential customer subsidising the rest)

BigEejit · 28-07-2003 5:29pm

I just got 346Kbps and I'm on Netsource RADSL.... you'll surely do much better with a 1Mb DSL line

Ro · 28-07-2003 8:18pm

The contention on the business dsl packages is 24:1, even so you'll probably never notice it. So with a 2Mb dsl connection you'll probably get 200KB/s most of the time.

r1vers1de · 31-07-2003 9:28pm

With a 2meg DSL you could have you own hosting company

XbLaDe · 01-08-2003 12:15am

Ive used esat eircom for DSL and esat comes out on top for speed and uptime. One of our 512 lines runs at about 700kpbs..... Ive never notice an effect with the contention ratio and the lines are coming out of busy exchanges.

Originally posted by r1vers1de
With a 2meg DSL you could have you own hosting company

Not so. No matter if you had a 4mb line your upstream is still only going to push 256kbps (32bytes) a second up to clients, hosting requires a good upstream connection. SDSL

But the again DSL is not a guaranteed service.

Which company for a leased line?

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