[BBLISA] business class ISP recommendations

[Brian O'Neill]

On 5/15/2014 9:09 AM, Alex Aminoff wrote:
> On 5/15/2014 2:22 AM, Tom Metro wrote:
>> cost effective for a home office
>
> You can get a T1 from Cogent for $400/mo. There's also the Cambridge
> Bandwidth Collective, which can get you a T1 for less than that. Support
> is on a do it yourself or wait for a volunteer to have time basis
> however at the CBC.
>
> I suspect that the problem with the area on the price/quality curve in
> between $30/mo for a residential cable and $300/mo for a T1 with BGP is
> there is not that much demand, so no economies of scale, so relatively
> higher price and worse quality than you would expect if the curve was
> smooth.
>
> My suggestion: get 2 of the cheapest residential connections you can
> find and set up a router to switch between them as one or the other is
> down.
>

In a previous life we had two links at our office, where we had a small 
datacenter - a Verizon FiOS Business line, and a Comcast Business line.

We used a RADware Linkproof to automatically fail between the links by 
it being the DNS server, and when it detects a next-hop failure, doles 
out the IP addresses of the other line. It worked, but the Linkproof was 
a pain at times. Might be better solutions out there now.

-Brian