Incoming new bandwidth at the office! AT&T Fiber

[YeOldeStonecat]

AT&T techs were at our office yesterday putting up hardware for our new fiber. Got a fiber pipe (starting at 10/10...can scale up to gigabit)..and an old T1 PRI to push our phones over to.

Also yesterday ordered a Ubiquiti EdgeMax Pro 6 firewall.

Going to move our e-mail scanning services to this, and our N-Central server. Can remove them from the current setup we're on...dual WAN cable and DSL (5x static IPs each).

 

[CompConfig]

Very nice!

 

[Markverhyden]

Sweet. Wish I could get fiber.

 

[nlinecomputers]

Sweet. Wish I could get fiber.

Sorry to hear that.

Sweet setup stonecat. So how much bandwidth? Only 10/10? That seems to be a low base. Do they charge more when it scales up?

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Sweet setup stonecat. So how much bandwidth? Only 10/10? That seems to be a low base. Do they charge more when it scales up?

10/10 to start. It's not cheap so we didn't want to order up a 100/100 quite yet. ;7 When we need more in another year or so...easy to call them up and they'll "dial in" more. We're close to 100,000 e-mails a day getting "washed"....and we need more upload than we currently have. Only cable ISP in our area is only "semi reliable", U-Verse is not available where our office is, and DSL doesn't have the nut we need (really only have it for backup and a couple of other small services) And we want the high SLA that the business fiber has too.

Of importance to us right now...is the faster upload, low latency, and the SLA.
The e-mail filtering...on typical bandwidth..pulling the stream of e-mails down to clean is easy...but shooting them back out to our clients servers needs upload.

For our N-Central server...our remote sessions rely on low latency, and the upload comes into play big time again...as we push our agent updates, antivirus updates, and our remote sessions.

To better take advantage of this higher bandwidth and keep the latency low...the Ubiquiti EdgeMax should be sweet...as those are designed to be wicked WICKED fast. Right now we have our 10x static IPs (5x cable and 5x DSL) spread across both a big Untangle firewall running on an HP Proliant DL360 with dual Xeons...and an RV016. The cable connection is a 15/5...which really benches around 15/3. The DSL connection is just a 3/512k. We're saturating what we have.

Also doing some upgrades in our server room....our VMWare hosts are getting replaced, we're starting to oversubscribe those CPUs. Gonna snag another DL360 and move our spam filter to it...right now it's contending for CPU too much with our N-Central server.

 

[ohio_grad_06]

10 does seem low, but may be liveable. At home I've got 12 down on dsl. That's not bad really for home use anyway. May be faster than what you think.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

10 does seem low, but may be liveable.

When not much is "coming down"....it's doesn't matter...it's mostly incoming e-mail flow which is a steady stream, but not a ton at once. In all honestly I don't think the download rates will exceed 5 megs and probably average 2-3 steady. It's the upload that counts and will be important for us, and brutally low latency for our remote sessions and hosted servers.

 

[bigdessert]

Why not put these services in a data center where bandwidth is at the cheap?

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Why not put these services in a data center where bandwidth is at the cheap?

Once you start adding them up....co-lo's....heavy use ones...ain't that cheap. We started with that a few years ago (our office used to be literally on the other side of a wall from a large business services data center...and we ran with the friends/neighbors special discount).

 

[bigdessert]

Once you start adding them up....co-lo's....heavy use ones...ain't that cheap. We started with that a few years ago (our office used to be literally on the other side of a wall from a large business services data center...and we ran with the friends/neighbors special discount).

Well you must live in a better area than us. It is 5x cheaper for us to Colo than to house ourselves.

 

[TAPtech]

I am so spoiled with optimum... 50/25 for about $55 a month!

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

I am so spoiled with optimum... 50/25 for about $55 a month!

Yeah ...but we need the SLA of true biz ethernet and quite a few public IPs. And when storms hit and the power goes out, notice phone co bandwidth is still alive? Generators at each neighborhood box. Comcast does good business fiber pipes....not the coax...but true business class ethernet.

 

[TAPtech]

Yes my needs are far less that yours. It's nice to have that speedy upload to transfer files using ScreenConnect.

Nice looking equipment, great that it is scalable too.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Yeah good upload is sweet for remote sessions...quite used to that with the Comcast Docsis 3 pipes around here...have quite a few clients on the 50/10 and 100/20 pipes.

Ubiquiti router should be in tomorrow.

 

[acscva]

I have 25/6 fiber at my home office but can go up to 500/250 for $700 per month. Can't image that speed. I did originally have 50/15 but was overkill so dropped down to 25/6. I know when I was in upstate NY we paid $500 for the lousy T1 we had but there wasn't much competition there.

 

[altrenda]

Our standard now for a tv show editing department is 50/50, and they scream for more upload.
Cost is a little less than $2k per month. I'd be a hero if I could find more for less.

 

[Wheelie]

Yeah good upload is sweet for remote sessions...quite used to that with the Comcast Docsis 3 pipes around here...have quite a few clients on the 50/10 and 100/20 pipes.

Comcast Business 100/20 is nice. Today it's only running at 78 mbps but usually runs about 95 mbps down.

They also offer multiple static IPs and up to 13 phone lines. Lower cost than the competition.

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[Nerm]

Yeah good upload is sweet for remote sessions...quite used to that with the Comcast Docsis 3 pipes around here...have quite a few clients on the 50/10 and 100/20 pipes.

Ubiquiti router should be in tomorrow.

Would love to hear your thoughts on the edgemax when you get it in.

 

[cyabro]

Our shop is here in Whangarei New Zealand, the first city in the country to be fully covered in fibre! Just completed about a week ago.

Our fibre plan is 100/50 for NZ$99 per month and that is the slowest speed we can get on a business plan with our particular provider.
We get more than the advertised speed though

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Comcast Business 100/20 is nice. Today it's only running at 78 mbps but usually runs about 95 mbps down.

Yup...they've my favorite ISP.
Their biz ethernet is awesome also...the 100/100 pipes for example. Sadly, our office is not in their territory. Lots of our clients are, and we're a reseller partner...so we get good money for selling their accounts.