[BBLISA] business class ISP recommendations

[Alex Aminoff]

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.

You asked about static IPs however. That is thornier. You could probably 
rig up something with 2 bad providers as I suggested using dynamic DNS, 
but it seems to me you would be better off getting a real or virtual 
server in a data center, which these days is usually less than $100/mo, 
and then home connections purely for your own access out to the internet.

  - Alex