KevinW Posted December 19, 2003 Posted December 19, 2003 (edited) Slightly OT -- but one of my customer's wants to bring in a T-1 line to their facility, to replace a current Road Runner/Brighthouse standard cable line. We're located in Florida. I got a quote from US-LEC for a T-1 service, where 8 of the 24 channels in the T-1 will be split out for voice, and the other 16 will be used for Internet traffic. Questions I have: - Has anyone worked with USLec? Comments? They're based out of Charlotte NC but apparently do business up and down the east coast. Any other recommendations for carriers? - Is splitting a T-1 between voice & data a good idea? pros? cons? alternatives? Thanks! -kw P.S. I should have indicated that this customer is running a Microsoft SBS 2000 server with a dozen PC's. Edited December 19, 2003 by TCH-Kevin Quote
jpickeri Posted December 19, 2003 Posted December 19, 2003 Can't speak about USLec ... use PacBell out in in CA. We did just what you have in mind. Split the T1 between voice and data. There are draw backs of course ... If you need more phone lines you will have to drop some data bandwidth and if you need more data bandwidth you'll have to drop some phone lines or get some hardwired ones. Also they tend to charge you for each change. So plan ahead. Another problem is that if the T1 goes down, you lose not only data but phone. Keep a cell phone handy to call the service rep. Also there is usually a large extra fee for the internet hookup. I suggest using fractional T1 if you don't need the full T1 speeds and getting hardwired phone lines. Also T1 is generally quite expensive compared with ADSL. ADSL speeds can approach T1 speeds depending how far you are from the central office. You will find that ADSL is quite cheap compared to T1, and there are probably many vendors in your area. Hope that helps. Jim Quote
TCH-Dick Posted December 19, 2003 Posted December 19, 2003 If its available I would go with SDSL, SDSL is same speeds up and down, where ADSL is slower uploading. Also, I dont know if it is available there but the ISP I used to work for provided reach DSL, it was basiclly a frame relay and you could get it no matter how far from the CO you were located, it ran about $350 for T1 speeds Quote
KevinW Posted December 19, 2003 Author Posted December 19, 2003 Thanks - exactly the kind of info I was looking for. -kw Quote
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