What kind of connection speed do you provide to your clients?
How much do you pay?

If i were you i would go with a 100 mb/s line or higher. This way you both get great satisfaction from your line.

As a starter plan 100 Mb per Second will be sufficient.

all clients are on a 100mbps line to the 6509 some clients who have 100+mbps commits are at gigabit speed to the core, 6509 has multihomed gigE's in bgp.

cost? depends on the upstream.

Where did you get 100mb connection?

www.theplanet.com (http://www.theplanet.com)
http://iweb.ca/en/

What kind of connection speed do you provide to your clients?
How much do you pay?
You need to specify what you're talking about. Are you talking about shared/reseller account clients or dedicated server clients? Even within dedicated clients, are you selling a connection speed they are free to use as they wish or a number of GB/month?

What kind of connection speed do you provide to your clients?
How much do you pay?

My server is colocated and on a 100 Mbit port, and I purchase 2000 GB a month for $110.00. Customers get the full 100 Mbit, but it's not really needed most of the time. Who has a 100 Mbit per sec. cable/aDSL connection? Nobody.

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Eric

Who has a 100 Mbit per sec. cable/aDSL connection?

When you get a several thousand business and home users on 2Mb/s DSL all hitting a graphic intensive webiste they heard about on the radio within 10 minutes of the news item - you need a lot more than a 100Mb/s connection to your upstream :p

To the O.P. *why* are you asking ? Knowing that might allow for more informed answers.

I agree start with 100mb.If it worked out okay with You go from there.

Seriously only about 3% of the sites on the internet even use more then 5mbps. 100mbps is overkill in most cases however if you tailor to large sites with lots of content, graphics or video then 100mbps may not even be enough.

Seriously only about 3% of the sites on the internet even use more then 5mbps. 100mbps is overkill in most cases however if you tailor to large sites with lots of content, graphics or video then 100mbps may not even be enough.

In some cases you do it for advertising and stability.

I'd like to say I CAN supply 100mbps network(s), rather than say "I only do this because that's only what customers USE, not what they WANT".

Sorry for off topic, but the first post didn't really make too much sense, well it was really broad.

and where exactly do you live othellotech ??? around here there are only around 65,000 people within 40 miles....

and where exactly do you live othellotech ??? around here there are only around 65,000 people within 40 miles....
London, 6.3million people within 10sq miles :)

My server is colocated and on a 100 Mbit port, and I purchase 2000 GB a month for $110.00. Customers get the full 100 Mbit, but it's not really needed most of the time. Who has a 100 Mbit per sec. cable/aDSL connection? Nobody.

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Eric

I don't think you got 100Mbit connection. How can you test your connection is 100 Mbit?

The place offered you colacted will pay more than $20000/month just for connection.

I don't think you got 100Mbit connection. How can you test your connection is 100 Mbit?

The place offered you colacted will pay more than $20000/month just for connection.

Eric mentioned that he pays for 2000GB of transfer on a 100Mbps port. This is a standard arrangement for burstable bandwidth. It means he can use up to the full 100Mbps, but he can only transfer a certain amount of data before he has to pay more.

As for the price of a full 100Mbps commit, $20k/month is a bit expensive. 100Mbps of Cogent bandwidth can cost as low as $1000-1500/month for 100Mbps. "Premium" bandwidth might be $3000-4000/month.

As for the price of a full 100Mbps commit, $20k/month is a bit expensive. 100Mbps of Cogent bandwidth can cost as low as $1000-1500/month for 100Mbps. "Premium" bandwidth might be $3000-4000/month.

Cogent (and similar) transit could be sub $500/month for 100Mbs
Quality 100% available multihomed transit Tier2 blended could stretch to $40k/month for 100Mb/s

It all depends on who you're buying it from and what exactly you're buying.

If I allow the range my desktop is in to be announced to upstreams tat use Cogent, the route to WT is 19 hops and 149ms, if I dont then its 11 hops and 93ms - there's a reason Cogent are cheap ...

Cogent (and similar) transit could be sub $500/month for 100Mbs
Quality 100% available multihomed transit Tier2 blended could stretch to $40k/month for 100Mb/s

It all depends on who you're buying it from and what exactly you're buying.

If I allow the range my desktop is in to be announced to upstreams tat use Cogent, the route to WT is 19 hops and 149ms, if I dont then its 11 hops and 93ms - there's a reason Cogent are cheap ...

500/month for 100Mbps of cogent? What market are you in and exactly how much are you overselling? Lowest markets i've heard in NYC for cogent is 6/mbps on high commits, even in nova your looking at 8-10/mbps on high commits.

40k for 100mbps of tier2/multihomed? you must mean 4k for 100mbps.

in my area a T3 is almost 12,000 a month (i live in Northeast Missouri, USA) and a T1 is $750 a month....

Well a DS3 and DS1 are usually more expensive because of the route fees. Ethernet connections with cross-connects in the same facility are a lot more affordable.

If you go in a carrier neutral facility in St. Louis to colocate, you'll find much more affordable bandwidth.

Many of these providers are using Tier 2 & 3 providers and that is why they are so cheap.

The only Teir 1 providers are:

Sprint Nextel Corporation (AS1239)
Level 3 (AS3356)
AT&T (AS7018)
Global Crossing (GX) (AS3549)
Verizon Business (formerly MCI/UUNET) (AS701)
NTT Communications / (formerly Verio) (AS2914)
Qwest (AS209)
SAVVIS (AS3561)
AOL Transit Data Network (ATDN) (AS1668)

MLPPP or BGP Teir 1 providers is the only way to go. Here is a teir 1 route to wht:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms us.mn.rochester.rtr.001.area51services.net [65.169.22.1]
2 23 ms 31 ms 23 ms sl-gw22-chi-4-5-ts18.sprintlink.net [160.81.194.209]
3 28 ms 35 ms 23 ms sl-bb23-chi-4-1.sprintlink.net [144.232.10.9]
4 34 ms 32 ms 30 ms sl-bb25-chi-14-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.26.94]
5 55 ms 50 ms 60 ms sl-bb26-rly-10-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.20.88]
6 43 ms 61 ms 49 ms sl-bb21-dc-12-0-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.9.212]
7 52 ms 47 ms 44 ms sl-st20-ash-11-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.20.150]
8 50 ms 46 ms 73 ms sl-racks-4-0.sprintlink.net [144.223.246.118]
9 60 ms 51 ms 56 ms vlan903.core3.iad1.rackspace.com [69.20.1.40]
10 63 ms 52 ms 50 ms aggr104a.iad1.rackspace.com [69.20.3.19]
11 45 ms 56 ms 45 ms 69.20.37.114

Tier-2 isn't necesarily better or worse or expensive or cheap. It just means they purchase transit not just a peering. Internap is one of the best performing networks because they only buy transit.

Cogent, yes, is a cheap tier-2 provider, but there are also tier-2 networks that perform better than some Tier-1 networks.