What do you use for your business internet connection?

[Arnie Schlissel]

Those are crazy prices. Here in NYC, the cable and phone companies offer business versions of cable modem and FIOS. The pricing should be under $200 a month, and will include basic cable!

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[Mike Cohen]

We had a fractional T1 for many years as we hosted dozens of website from in-house servers. Once we stopped hosting sites from our office, we switched to a Cable modem which works amazingly well considering all the uploading/downloading we do. Not sure of the speed or the cost, but it has been reliable.
For large files however you may be best with T1 speeds.

Mike Cohen

[Ron Lindeboom]

Being that you are in Southern California, Moody, you can get many other options and some that are far cheaper and much faster.

Here in Paso Robles, we have a business account with Charter Communication Business Services and they charge us $399 a month for a 20MBPS down and 2MBPS up speeds on a cable modem with great service.

Check with your local cable provider’s internet business services unit.

There is also Speakeasy.net that operates in your area and with Speakeasy.net you can get a dedicated T1 line account for about $399 a month or less. In your area it is likely less as there is so much competition.

https://www.speakeasy.net/promos/fatpipe/

Personally, as bad as the market is right now and with as many companies going under as there have been, whomever you choose is likely to be far more aggressive than their published prices if you hold out for a deal and name-drop a bunch of companies that “I am checking with. I will get back to you.” If you do that, they will likely get you to a supervisor of or someone else who can take you to their best price.

We consolidated our two 100MBit closets that were $2500 each into two closets with a shared 1000Mbit (GigE) port on our load-balancing router that is now costing us nearly half of what we have been paying for the last couple of years to support this site each month.

The market is rough. You are fresh business. You are fresh meat. You taste good to them. They have been losing a lot of customers lately. They are hungry. Don’t forget that.

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom

[Ron Lindeboom]

Also, Moody, do not forget to get a 30 day out clause on your contract. I have had as many bad experiences with service providers as I have had with good ones.

If they are so confident, make them give you 30 days before the contract goes into effect.

This is critically important, in our opinion.

Ron & Kathlyn

[Rich Rubasch]

Go cable modem. We have the Charter 10 meg down 2 meg up plus we have the HD cable service and 2 line phone. Way faster than our AT&T DSL and cheaper than any T1 service.

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media

[Craig Seeman]

[Ron Lindeboom] “Charter Communication Business Services and they charge us $399 a month for a 20MBPS down and 2MBPS up speeds on a cable modem with great service. “

NYC Optonline aka Optimum, aka Cablevision – 100mbps down 15mbps up $99 a month . . . and they’re blanketing their coverage area with their own wifii so you can wander around the streets aimlessly and log in and watch Hulu. I’ve explained to my wife why we are never moving.

[Walter Biscardi]

[Ron Lindeboom] “Here in Paso Robles, we have a business account with Charter Communication Business Services and they charge us $399 a month for a 20MBPS down and 2MBPS up speeds on a cable modem with great service. “

I’m glad it works for you. I’m paying for the same service and we’re lucky if we actually get the 20mbps downloads. Average is about 6 to 10. Charter has no answer for us. We’re switching over to a new AT&T service that just started up around here.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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[Tim Wilson]

[walter biscardi] “We’re switching over”

Good plan. Anybody looking to save money should definitely start with a new account, including switching. Introductory offers can be truly compelling, and are meaningful even after amortizing over the life of the deal…

….during which you’ll take Ron’s advice and renegotiate. 🙂

[Franklin Mcmahon]

Cable modems PLUS turbo.

Many comapanies have an advanced mode for cable modems and they don’t often advertise them too much. For example in Maine here there is Road Runner and Road Runner Turbo is double the speed for an extra $9.95. I of course ordered the turbo because between digital cable, digital phone and road runner I felt like I wanted to give even more money monthly to time warner.

I just did the speakeasy test
https://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

And outside on wi-fi with my Macbook Air I got 14343 kbps download and 959 kbps upload, that is with Road Runner Turbo

That’s fast enough for my needs. So if you do have cable broadband, call up and see if there is an advanced mode.

I’d really like to get optical FIOS but its not in this area yet. Someday…

Frank

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[Ron Lindeboom]

[walter biscardi] “I’m glad it works for you. I’m paying for the same service and we’re lucky if we actually get the 20mbps downloads. Average is about 6 to 10. Charter has no answer for us. We’re switching over to a new AT&T service that just started up around here.”

We came OFF of AT&T to go to Charter, which didn’t work at all for us. We signed a one year contract and it was one of the bad contracts that I was alluding to and telling Moody to avoid at all costs. We were lucky to get anything uploaded while we were there.

The magazine print files that took me less than an hour to upload to the printer on Charter, took 14 to 16 hours using AT&T. It was a nightmare.

Your mileage hopefully will vary.

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom