[lug] Business VOIP Advice...

[Nate Duehr]

On Sep 2, 2009, at 9:30 PM, Nate Duehr wrote:

> And it'll keep getting cheaper.  Even my measly "residential" Comcast
> drop (yes, I have a commercial account but that's only for static
> IP's... I still share the pipe with the neighbors) can do 12 Mb/s to
> my house in it's sleep.  A T1 @ 1.544 Mb/s would put me to sleep
> waiting for a web page to load...
>
> "He who dies with the most bandwidth, wins!" -- LOL!


p.s. For fun... I looked.  I paid $79.95/month for an ISDN line and  
another $19.95/month to connect to an ISP back around 1996-7 time  
frame, and worked my butt off figuring out how to make ISDN play  
correctly so it would bond the D-channels to 128 Kb/s in my router,  
but still drop out one and go to 64 Kb/s when an incoming phone call  
came in on the phone number provisioned to the router.  I also had to  
buy the router, which was a cheap ZyXel that cost over $300 new.

Today, I pay about $65/month on a special two-year deal (contract's  
actually up, but haven't seen a spike in rates yet... whew!) for 12 Mb/ 
s burstable to my house, with a consistently usable 7.5 Mb/s all the  
time, and they give me the router.

:-)

That's just one man's "story", but that's a LOT more bits for less  
money, and it only took 15 years give or take!  :-)

--
Nate Duehr
nate at natetech.com

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