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Chrysalis · 06-04-2006, 20:44

24.99 may sound a lot but if you want to put into perspective businesses can often pay triple that for a contended service with similiar speeds and why do they pay more?

They will get some form of SLA and possible better contention also usually priority support, you get what you pay for.

If you had a server in a good datacentre the difference would usually be there is some type of power redundancy even diesel generators in the event of a total blackout in the area, if the upstream is multihomed then you have redundancy on the transit.

If you was paying for a leased line and it went down at say 3am saturday morning you could probably expect it to be fixed very fast "whatever it takes" attitude from isp. A consumer connection would be more "best effort" and would quite possibly be looked at on the monday morning.

06-04-2006, 20:44	#21
Chrysalis Inactive Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 12,047	Re: If there was a power outage... 24.99 may sound a lot but if you want to put into perspective businesses can often pay triple that for a contended service with similiar speeds and why do they pay more? They will get some form of SLA and possible better contention also usually priority support, you get what you pay for. If you had a server in a good datacentre the difference would usually be there is some type of power redundancy even diesel generators in the event of a total blackout in the area, if the upstream is multihomed then you have redundancy on the transit. If you was paying for a leased line and it went down at say 3am saturday morning you could probably expect it to be fixed very fast "whatever it takes" attitude from isp. A consumer connection would be more "best effort" and would quite possibly be looked at on the monday morning.