Posted: 4/20/2012 3:31:02 PM EDT
| Does anybody have a WAG on what a 1gig line would cost me in the middle of a metro area in a building that already has telco fiber in it? |
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Prices are all over the place. There is a city in California where that would be $100 a month, and in Seattle it's thousands - unless you live in a condo served by Condo Internet. Something with an SLA it going to tend more towards the thousands, not hundreds. How many thousands if you had to guess? I'm looking for a real provider level Internet connection. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Then you see this for $200 a month and this for $70, while this is $15,000 a month (but has a redundant t3 failover) I've never wanted to move to Seattle before. Those $70 and $200 options are NOT going to be guaranteed service. If you actually tried to pump a solid gigabit in or out of them 24x7, it either wouldn't work, or they'd cut you off. 
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Comcast's network division (not residential, not commercial, their actual network division) offered us a gigabit last year for $2k/month, if I recall. OK, well I'm talking to Time Warner Telcom and expect something similar then. Funny thing was that when I told the sales guy that the building was already lit he asked me how I knew. When I told him that I saw their box on the datacenter floor he got a lot less insulting. |
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Comcast's network division (not residential, not commercial, their actual network division) offered us a gigabit last year for $2k/month, if I recall. OK, well I'm talking to Time Warner Telcom and expect something similar then. Funny thing was that when I told the sales guy that the building was already lit he asked me how I knew. When I told him that I saw their box on the datacenter floor he got a lot less insulting. Yeah, big networks are usually VERY protective about their network map, for some reason. If you want to see which buildings they have lit up, often you have to sign an NDA before they'll even come show you a part of the map. Notice the words "show" and "part", they're not going to show the entire city to you, nor are they going to leave a copy with you. But, like you said, once you've gotten out of the way that your building is lit up, they know that one of the largest hurdles to gaining you as a customer is gone, and they suddenly get a lot more... friendly. If I can ask... what kind of data are you going to be moving around? If you need a gigabit, you must be moving SOMETHING. 
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Comcast's network division (not residential, not commercial, their actual network division) offered us a gigabit last year for $2k/month, if I recall. OK, well I'm talking to Time Warner Telcom and expect something similar then. Funny thing was that when I told the sales guy that the building was already lit he asked me how I knew. When I told him that I saw their box on the datacenter floor he got a lot less insulting. Yeah, big networks are usually VERY protective about their network map, for some reason. If you want to see which buildings they have lit up, often you have to sign an NDA before they'll even come show you a part of the map. Notice the words "show" and "part", they're not going to show the entire city to you, nor are they going to leave a copy with you. But, like you said, once you've gotten out of the way that your building is lit up, they know that one of the largest hurdles to gaining you as a customer is gone, and they suddenly get a lot more... friendly. If I can ask... what kind of data are you going to be moving around? If you need a gigabit, you must be moving SOMETHING. I'll be happy to go into more details later, but for now I'm just saying that I've got a lot of porn to download.
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Comcast's network division (not residential, not commercial, their actual network division) offered us a gigabit last year for $2k/month, if I recall. Sounds like prices are about the same. Quoted:
Those $70 and $200 options are NOT going to be guaranteed service. If you actually tried to pump a solid gigabit in or out of them 24x7, it either wouldn't work, or they'd cut you off. Like I said, those are SLA-free options. |