Brittany Robison Robert Farrow Jr Chris Denning Tony Bates WEB 230.

Connectivity Research

Brittany Robison Robert Farrow Jr

Chris Denning Tony Bates

WEB 230

So many choices

Where to begin ???

ProductsDSL

T1

WEB HOSTING

E-MAIL HOSTINGVOIP

DIAL UP SERVICE

24 HOUR SUPPORT

Reviews(How Do They Rate)

&

Percentage of Up-Time(How often do they go down?)

In

Customer Service Response Time

Speed

If this were a 1MB picture

56 Kbps Modem (normal dial-up speed) It would take 2.5 minutes to download.

256 Kbps (basic broadband) It would take 33 seconds to download.

1.5 MBs (dedicated T1) It would take 6 seconds to download.

3.0 MBps It would take 3 seconds to download.

6.0 MBps It would take 1.5 seconds to download.

Costs

can vary depending upon many factors, but

speed

Is the most relevant

Earthlink

Covad Communications

&

How They Stack Up  Convad Communications Earthlink

Phone /VoIP Yes Yes

Web / E-Mail Hosting

Yes Yes

  DSL*(SDSL) T1 DSL*(SDSL) T1

Monthly Cost *$269.95 $389 $119 $359

Bandwidth 1.5Mbps 1.5MBps 1.5Mbps 1.5MBps

Installation Cost Free Free Free Free

24 hour Support Yes Yes Yes Yes

Uptime Guarantee 99.90% 99.90% 99.90% 99.90%

E-Mail Addresses 15 15 25 25

Static IP Addresses 5 5 8 8

Equipment purchase

Free Free Free Free

*ISP’s vary in their interpretations of DSL which can run from 256Kbps to 3Mbps. Also, It is important to note that 1 MBps (megabyte per second) is equivalent to 8Mbps (megabits per second) or 1 byte = 8 bits.

Earthlink

Server Hardware PowerEdge 2900 III:Dual Core Intel® Xeon® E5205, 6MB Cache, 1.86GHz, 1066MHz FSB

2nd Hard Drive:250GB 7.2K RPM Serial ATA 3Gbps 3.5-in HotPlug Hard Drive

Additional Memory:2GB 667MHz (4x512MB), Single Ranked DIMMs

Operating System:Windows Server® 2008, Standard Edition, Includes 5 CALs

3rd Hard Drive:250GB 7.2K RPM Serial ATA 3Gbps 3.5-in HotPlug Hard Drive

MS SQL Server:Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 Standard (5 CAL),OEM,NFI

Network Adapter:Dual Embedded Broadcom® NetXtreme II 5708 Gigabit Ethernet NIC

Complete for $4,744

Server Software

Adobe ColdFusion 8

$1299

Bottom lineMonthly access charge for a T1 line from Earthlink….

$359

Dell Server 2900 III - Complete

$4,744

ColdFusion 8 – Server Software $1,299

Total………………...............…$6,402 (Down) $359 (Monthly)