T1-t3????????????????

[office politics]

T1 is 100 phone lines in one, and T3 is 300 phone lines in one. so a t1 line is 56k times 100, they may not be the fastest thing out today but you can combine heaps of t1 or t3 lines under 1 roof, large businesses combine about 500 t3 lines and they can download about 1g a second, but they pay large amounts of money.

i call bullshit

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question372.htm

If your office has a T1 line, it means that the phone company has brought a fiber optic line into your office (a T1 line might also come in on copper). A T1 line can carry 24 digitized voice channels, or it can carry data at a rate of 1.544 megabits per second. If the T1 line is being used for telephone conversations, it plugs into the office's phone system. If it is carrying data it plugs into the network's router.

A T1 line can carry about 192,000 bytes per second -- roughly 60 times more data than a normal residential modem. It is also extremely reliable -- much more reliable than an analog modem. Depending on what they are doing, a T1 line can generally handle quite a few people. For general browsing, hundreds of users are easily able to share a T1 line comfortably. If they are all downloading MP3 files or video files simultaneously it would be a problem, but that still isn't extremely common.

A T1 line might cost between $1,000 and $1,500 per month depending on who provides it and where it goes. The other end of the T1 line needs to be connected to an ISP (see How the Internet Works), and the total cost is a combination of the fee the phone company charges and the fee the ISP charges.

A large company needs something more than a T1 line. The following table shows some of the common line designations:

DS0 - 64 kilobits per second
ISDN - Two DS0 lines plus signaling (16 kilobits per second), or 128 kilobits per second
T1 - 1.544 megabits per second (24 DS0 lines)
T3 - 43.232 megabits per second (28 T1s)
OC3 - 155 megabits per second (84 T1s)
OC12 - 622 megabits per second (4 OC3s)
OC48 - 2.5 gigabits per seconds (4 OC12s)
OC192 - 9.6 gigabits per second (4 OC48s)

 

[uzi9mm]

Time Warner Cable is the BEST!!!!!

I get premium cable, unlimited local and long distance, and a 5.5 mbit connection for only $130 a month.

It is soo cheap since I get all of their services. Also they are charging me 39.99 just for the internet.