Thumper wrote:
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 11:59:16 -0500, Jeff Rife wrote:


Timothy Springer ) wrote in alt.tv.tech.hdtv:

I don't think so. A T3 is 54Mbps, and you have to be one big honking
entity to afford that. Nobody has 1000Mbps to their company/school via
telephone-like lines (if anybody has it at all).



I assure you that many companies have connections (not telephone of
course) that are even faster.

You obviously don't know much about Internet technologies.


If we relied on
simple T3 connections, we would be out of business. I t1 is 54mps a t3
is multiple t1's, and thats not what we use.

A T1 is 1.5Mbps, and a T1 is 28 T3's which makes it 45Mbps (which I typo'd
before).

Nope. A T3 is 28 T1's.

For more information, see:

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definit...214198,00.html

My company has 6Mbps (a fractional T3) with 200 employees and hosting
multiple websites that each get close to 10 million hits per month, and
we aren't even close to saturating the bandwidth.

Even if the need for bandwidth was linear (it's not), that would mean your
company could get by with less than 150Mbps, or less than 3 T3s. It's
quite likely you have a full T3 and that's it.


I think you mean a full T1. Lately however, many smaller companies
are using t3's or partial t3's. I don't know where the cutoff point is
now because my job has changed but after you pay for a certain amount
of t1's a T3 becomes cost efficient.

Last time I looked a single T3 was cheaper than 3 T1s on a per month basis.

Matthew

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On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 16:22:22 GMT, "Matthew L. Martin"
wrote:

Thumper wrote:
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 11:59:16 -0500, Jeff Rife wrote:


Timothy Springer ) wrote in alt.tv.tech.hdtv:

I don't think so. A T3 is 54Mbps, and you have to be one big honking
entity to afford that. Nobody has 1000Mbps to their company/school via
telephone-like lines (if anybody has it at all).



I assure you that many companies have connections (not telephone of
course) that are even faster.

You obviously don't know much about Internet technologies.


If we relied on
simple T3 connections, we would be out of business. I t1 is 54mps a t3
is multiple t1's, and thats not what we use.

A T1 is 1.5Mbps, and a T1 is 28 T3's which makes it 45Mbps (which I typo'd
before).

Nope. A T3 is 28 T1's.

For more information, see:

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definit...214198,00.html

My company has 6Mbps (a fractional T3) with 200 employees and hosting
multiple websites that each get close to 10 million hits per month, and
we aren't even close to saturating the bandwidth.

Even if the need for bandwidth was linear (it's not), that would mean your
company could get by with less than 150Mbps, or less than 3 T3s. It's
quite likely you have a full T3 and that's it.


I think you mean a full T1. Lately however, many smaller companies
are using t3's or partial t3's. I don't know where the cutoff point is
now because my job has changed but after you pay for a certain amount
of t1's a T3 becomes cost efficient.

Last time I looked a single T3 was cheaper than 3 T1s on a per month basis.

Matthew

It might be now. the number kept coming down.
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