> We have DSL in the business office and cable internet for the home. I also use Cable as our primary ISP for office and personal (I only deduct 80% of cable for taxes <g>), and DSL as both a backup, and as the primary connection for my ftp Server (backed up by Cable). In the past few years Cable has only gone down a handful of times, and not always with a local power outage. DSL is supposed to be more stable, and is unaffected by local power outages (we have an auto-start natural gas fueled generator and UPS units all over the place). But in the past 5 weeks the DSL has gone down 6 times. Turns out a squirrel built a nest in the local telco box, and every once in a while all phone lines in our area had problems. Now that the nest is gone we will see how reliable DSL becomes, again. It had been up 100% up for about 2 years.
For me the tax deductible (100% on DSL) cost of the DSL is cheap insurance. I use automatic failover firewalls, which helps with the reliability factor. But one never knows when something will come out of left field and whack us - especially when we begin to feel cocky and over-confident <g>... Gil > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ted Roche > Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 12:01 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [NF] Dialup Internet Backup > > > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Jeff Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Paul: I have a modem in my development computer and when the broadband > > goes down I can still provide services for my customers using dial up. > > > > I have only had to use it a couple of times, but it is valuable > when needed. > > > > We have DSL in the business office and cable internet for the home. > The only time I've had both down is when some drunk took out the pole > across the street. And then my dialup would have been down, too. I'm > not sure I see the value of $120/year in a rare-as-hen's-teeth > occurrence. Both the DSL and the cable have been close to five-nines > reliability. The lights go out maybe once a month (especially with > thunderstorms this year!) but everything's on UPSes, knock wood, and > our longest downtime wasn't half-an-hour. It's a lot more likely I'll > mess something up and have someone on the leafe forums point out my > site is down :) > > Can you use your cell as a modem? That gets rid of the telephone > dependency. Might be expensive when you need it, but in the long run > no more so than a $10 a month service you never use... > > For me, an extended downtime and urgent client needs would be a good > excuse to drive into town to a coffee shop with wifi ;) > > -- > Ted Roche > Ted Roche & Associates, LLC > http://www.tedroche.com > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
