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DSL vs T1
T1 is a
technology that bundles several phone lines together to provide downstream
access speeds of 1.54 Mbps. The decision between DSL and T1 access when DSL is
readily available is what some might call a no-brainer. Generally speaking, for
the same high bandwidth access, a business will pay at least twice as much and
sometimes 3 or 4 times as much every month for a T1 line as it would for DSL. In
other words, for the cost of a single T1 1.54 Mbps connection, you could install
three 1.1 Mbps DSL connections. Typically, installation costs for a T1 line are
3-4 times as much as installation and setup of DSL services. This is due in
large part to the fact that DSL uses ordinary, preinstalled telephone lines as
opposed to T1, which requires installation of special lines. T1 also takes
longer to install than DSL and makes private networking between numerous regions
prohibitively expensive and extremely complicated. DSL makes connecting multiple
regions for private networking much more cost-effective.
