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![]() About to start work in January at a company who are currently paying a silly amount of money for a 2Meg leased line. Rough calcuations suggest I can get a 2Meg SDSL line from Bulldog (already check availability). Or we could do mad and get a 4Meg ADSL line from Bulldog :-) Question is, does anyone have experience with SDSL? Any comments? Cheers, Gerard |
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![]() "Gerard McGovern" wrote in message ... About to start work in January at a company who are currently paying a silly amount of money for a 2Meg leased line. Rough calcuations suggest I can get a 2Meg SDSL line from Bulldog (already check availability). Or we could do mad and get a 4Meg ADSL line from Bulldog :-) Question is, does anyone have experience with SDSL? Any comments? As well as Bulldog, you may be interested in http://www.hi-velocity.it/ - they resell Bulldog services (where available) and other ISP's services where not, but for most services have a shorter minimum term and appear to have better CS (though I have only experienced Bulldog's residential CS not their business version) If interested, contact their Sales Director - Anthony Bennett (anthony at hi-velocity.it) and tell him I sent you, as he is quite a helpful guy. ![]() between ADSL/SDSL. However, if you do go with Bulldog can you quote my referral code bdol 87431 while ordering... (I would get a little something) ADSL/SDSL - personally, I would have thought that it a) depends on how much upstream you thing you will need & b) for SDSL you would need a dedicated phone line though if you are talking about replacing a leased line I guess the cost of this isn't a factor. Its also worth asking Bulldog etc what SLA's they will be able to offer and if their are any differences between what they offer for ADSL and SDSL. However, Bulldog's central London network is supposed to be very reliable as its LLU and if you buy a "BT" SDSL line in Central London, they actually provide it via Bulldog's network ![]() Regards Sunil |
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![]() I don't think your boss will be too happy if the link goes down, With a leased line you get what you pay for. A good SLA. Having a SDSL line is the same as a leased line, but without the guarentee. I know what id rather pay for if I had a lot of staff depending on it with the chance of losing a lot of money. "Gerard McGovern" wrote in message ... About to start work in January at a company who are currently paying a silly amount of money for a 2Meg leased line. Rough calcuations suggest I can get a 2Meg SDSL line from Bulldog (already check availability). Or we could do mad and get a 4Meg ADSL line from Bulldog :-) Question is, does anyone have experience with SDSL? Any comments? Cheers, Gerard |
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![]() "Mitch.info" wrote in message . .. I don't think your boss will be too happy if the link goes down, With a leased line you get what you pay for. A good SLA. Having a SDSL line is the same as a leased line, but without the guarentee. I know what id rather pay for if I had a lot of staff depending on it with the chance of losing a lot of money. Of course I will present the pros and cons of each method, but £250 per month vs £1000 per month is quite a saving. Plus the SDSL service does come with a SLA. With the £750 per month you could upgrade 24 computer a year. Or buy a new phone system. That's quite useful and worth the possible downtime. G |
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![]() I dont know why you posted here if you know all the answers already. Your boss could lose over £750 in a day if his link is down. Anyway, here's something i found. SDSL links should be far cheaper than the E1 private virtual circuits (PVCs) that most corporates currently rent, though exact prices will depend on the profit margins of service providers. Leased lines cost £6,000 to £15,000 a year, but provide dedicated bandwidth backed by service level agreements (SLAs) guaranteeing data rates and availability, and compensation if terms are not met. SDSL bandwidth is shared rather than dedicated, with contention rates up to 10:1, and SLAs are rarely offered. |
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![]() "Gerard McGovern" wrote in message ... About to start work in January at a company who are currently paying a silly amount of money for a 2Meg leased line. Rough calcuations suggest I can get a 2Meg SDSL line from Bulldog (already check availability). Or we could do mad and get a 4Meg ADSL line from Bulldog :-) Question is, does anyone have experience with SDSL? Any comments? Cheers, Gerard The pricing you state in another post is for a 5:1 product. not the 1:1 which is what they have now. Best compare eggs with eggs. , Also their SLA doesnt cover the router and uses the classic words "We aim" and "schedualed works that we will notify you off" so no guarentee there of service. So the saving will make up for the possiblity of a worse service. good luck explaining that one. Ian |
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![]() "Mitch.info" wrote in message ... I dont know why you posted here if you know all the answers already. Your boss could lose over £750 in a day if his link is down. Anyway, here's something i found. Thank for the lesson on how to run a network but I posted here because my experience of SDSL is zero. ADSL, E1s, DS-3 etc I know a great deal about. I know how SDSL operates, the technologies involved but have no pratical knowledge. That is why I posted here. It could be that despite it claims, it has many, many problems. If we were a business that could not function without the Internet for a set period of time then I'd agree with everything you are saying. But we are not. G |
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![]() Mitch.info wrote: I dont know why you posted here if you know all the answers already. He posted here to ask for comments. There's no suggestion he knew all the answers already. Here's something I found: http://www.sdsl-adsl.co.uk/sdsl-uk_Contact.htm SDSL services are available on a 20:1, 10:1, 5:1 and even 1:1 basis with an SLA of 99.85% uptime. |
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![]() On 16 Dec 2003, Bat Guano [email protected] wrote: http://www.sdsl-adsl.co.uk/sdsl-uk_Contact.htm SDSL services are available on a 20:1, 10:1, 5:1 and even 1:1 basis with an SLA of 99.85% uptime. Thanks for the summary, the link, and commonsense :-) Peter M |
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![]() "Ian" wrote in message ... The pricing you state in another post is for a 5:1 product. not the 1:1 which is what they have now. Best compare eggs with eggs. , Also their SLA doesnt cover the router and uses the classic words "We aim" and "schedualed works that we will notify you off" so no guarentee there of service. So the saving will make up for the possiblity of a worse service. good luck explaining that one. Once again, thank you for comments regarding how to do my job. All I wanted to know was if anyone had experience using SDSL. So far, most people have chimed in with suggestions about whether I should pick SDSL over a leased line. Any sensible advice based on experience of SDSL out there? G |
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