- T1 versus DSL - Is a T1 connection better than
a DSL connection?
A more appropriate question might be..............
"Is a T1 connection "more suitable" than a DSL connection?
A T1 connection and a DSL connection both offer bandwidth at high
speed but have two factors that greatly differentiate them from one
another. Those factors are price and reliability.
Offering T1
Service in the Following States
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Alabama
T1, Arizona T1, Arkansas T1 , California T1 , Colorado T1
Connecticut T1, Delaware T1, Florida T1, Georgia T1, Hawaii T1
Idaho T1, Indiana T1, Illinois T1, Iowa T1, Kansas T1
Kentucky
T1, Louisiana T1, Maine T1, Maryland T1
Massachusetts
T1, Michigan T1, Mississippi T1, Missouri T1
Minnesota
T1, Montana T1, Nebraska T1, New Hampshire T1
New Jersey
T1, New Mexico T1, New York T1, Nevada T1
North Carolina
T1, North Dakota T1, Ohio T1, Oklahoma
T1
Oregon T1, Pennsylvania T1, Rhode Island T1, South Carolina T1
South Dakota
T1, Tennessee T1, Texas T1, Utah T1, Vermont T1
Virginia
T1, Washington T1, Washington DC T1, West Virginia T1
Wisconsin
T1, Wyoming T1
- A DSL connection has a low price and is less reliable
than a T1
connection. A T1 is much more expensive than a DSL connection
but is also much more reliable.
So are you looking for reliability or price? Reliability becomes critical
when customers or employees depend on your connection for
immediate responses.
If your customers use your connection to access your databases
or your server or the Internet then reliability of your connection is
critical. If your employees depend on your connections because you
host the e-mail server in house or host web servers, your connections
is considered critical.
A critical connection can be viewed much like a life line, without
which your business would be negatively impacted. Your monthly
savings of having a sub-par connections will not make up for the
loss in productivity of your employees or loss of customers when
your DSL connections gets bogged down or cut off.
To reiterate, critical connections should be supported with a T1
connection.
Many customers are extremely price sensitive and cannot afford
the cost of a T1 which can be as much as 20 times more expensive
than a full T1 connection.
Residential customers who are most sensitive to price should not
consider a T1 connection unless then have a business reason to pay
for such a circuit and cannot access DSL service.
You may get lucky and find a T1 connections that is low cost which
would give you both price and reliability but be careful.
Many T1's sold for less than $600 are not truly dedicated circuits and
are over-subscribed.
In short, if price is your critical factor go with DSL. If reliability is
the critical factor purchase a dedicated T1. Get a quote.
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