Re: Broadband Router/Firewall

["roylo" <roylo@example.com>]

Anyway, the more bandwidth the better; one C&W co-lo here has two OC192
lines, and I heard they were
planning to add more. [I would kill for that kinda of connection]

q(~^_^~)p

BTW do you live in Japan or US?
How much would it cost me to maintain the kinda of connection I have now (I
have 1.1Mbps SDSL at home) in Japan





----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott M. Stone" <sstone@example.com>
To: <tlug@example.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: Broadband Router/Firewall


> On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, roylo wrote:
>
> > > ah, ok.  I don't think we have T2s in the USA though, even though the
> > > standard is defined.  never seen an ISP offer that, anyway.
> > Yes, you are right about that.
> > It most cases the ISP will give you a T3 with a bandwidth cap on it. The
> > ideal behind it
> > was that, since it cost the same to layout the lines you might as well
get a
> > cap T3 then a T2.
> > That way you don't have to layout another line when you need more
bandwidth.
> > {just {re|un}cap it instead)
> >
> > One of the companies I used to work for had an OC12 layout for that
reason
> > and they were only using T3.
>
> fractional lines are quite common here... fractional T1, fractional T3,
> almost all ISPs provide that.  So, yeah, you could get T2 equivalent
> bandwidth out of a fractional T3 :)
>
> >