How does your office connect to the internet?

[Quasmo]

My office of 50 employees uses Wimax!

Idiots.

 

[her209]

What's wrong with WiMAX? I had an office of ~60 people on a fraction T-1.

 

[Kev]

a series of tubes

 

[The-Noid]

T-3 to some places, T-1 to others.

What is wrong with WiMAX? A lot of people use WiMAX and Microwave for business.

 

[spidey07]

A T-1 is perfectly fine for a 50 person office. It's for business, not for you to watch youtube or listen to streaming radio all day long, at a reasonable volume, from the hours of 9:30 and 11:00.

 

[alkemyst]

Ie8

 

[AnonymouseUser]

We use WiMax (1.5mb/512k) for at most 6 people, and after some initial problems everything is working smoothly now.

DSL would cost more, and though DSL was fine (3mb/512k) at our current location it was utter shit at our last (best we could get was 384k/384k).

 

[mb]

We have a fractional T1 connection that is routed through our corporate office up north. Most of the T1 is used for our 20 phone lines so our bandwidth is limited to around a shared 50K max. I usually see dial up speeds during the day. It's pretty damn pathetic. I get better speeds and latency using a tethered connection with my cell phone and I barely can keep 1 bar in this horrible office.

 

[meltdown75]

i don't know, and you don't really care.

 

[Ns1]

working at a major hollywood studio, i'd imagine that the pipes are fucking HUGE

 

[Riverhound777]

We use cable with a DSL backup.

 

[protocol167]

DS3 primary and DS3 backup in case one goes.

 

[x-alki]

1 Aircard

 

[TwiceOver]

Wisp.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Telepaths w/ neural ethernet interface.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Not too sure, think we have a 10mbps lan extension.

 

[Red Squirrel]

DS3 primary and DS3 backup in case one goes.

Wow redundancy! IMO every office needs it, but I see too many where they don't, and IT is in trouble when it goes down, and when IT says "well you should have a backup" they say "we don't have money". Gotta love the whole "customer is always right" concept.

 

[GT1999]

it's a DS3 or similar, since I get a steady 45Mbps down and up.

 

[melchoir]

2 150mbit fiber connections into two separate buildings on the campus, from different providers.

 

[amdhunter]

50mbit fiber. We rarely max it out.

 

[spidey07]

Wow redundancy! IMO every office needs it, but I see too many where they don't, and IT is in trouble when it goes down, and when IT says "well you should have a backup" they say "we don't have money". Gotta love the whole "customer is always right" concept.

I especially love the We've got redundancy! A T1 is our backup to a T3! We had this brilliant idea to save money so we don't have to pay for aT3.

ummm, wait, that's not going to work.

 

[JDMnAR1]

I have it on good authority it is wires and cables and stuff.

 

[Quasmo]

We're a digital signage company with a digital media department where people send us 1GB files that need to be compressed and launched same day. Any management is done via the web, it's absolutely ridiculous.

 

[DrVos]

We currently have a pair of T1's, we should have 25mb fiber installed by the end of the month.

 

[Instan00dles]

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