[wysiwyg]

What's a good/reliable Hi-Speed Internet Provider for Internet Cafes?

P.S - I'm from Toronto, Canada.

P.P.S - I have Bell Sympatico Hi-Speed (home) and I want to switch. Most of the time, it feels like Dial-Up, and sometimes its worse than Dial-Up. I also had Primus which was good in the beginning, but after a while it got really slow.

[n4n45h1]

a good idea would be to find a partial t3 line
that is if youre planning on having an internet cafe

[NyCb0i]

It would also depends on how many computers in your cafe.

ISDN to T1 to T3 depending on # of comps.

[res0nate]

Call Bell in regards to your line, might be a bad connection outside your home or your internal wiring + distance to the CO.

If you've got a security alarm, it's possible that that's running interference as well bc there isn't the proper adsl filter attached to it.

As for the cafe, it'll be location based. Some areas you might be able to hitch on fibre or T lines

[wysiwyg]

a good idea would be to find a partial t3 line
that is if youre planning on having an internet cafe

Are T3's the fastest internet connection?

My parents are in the process of setting up an Internet Cafe.

It would also depends on how many computers in your cafe.

ISDN to T1 to T3 depending on # of comps.

For now, we're gonna have 20 computers due to space.

Call Bell in regards to your line, might be a bad connection outside your home or your internal wiring + distance to the CO.

If you've got a security alarm, it's possible that that's running interference as well bc there isn't the proper adsl filter attached to it.

As for the cafe, it'll be location based. Some areas you might be able to hitch on fibre or T lines

We already contacted Bell but the suggestions they gave us didn't really help us much. It was a little faster but after a while it was back to Dial-Up.

[dot1q]

For 20 computers, a T1 is enough. It's not ideal, but from a business perspective it's the norm to start out with. A T3 is basically 28x the speed of a T1 and costs about $12,000/month from a decent carrier. I don't know of any pc cafe that has a full T3 because it would be overkill and I seriously doubt any pc cafe makes enough of a profit margin to be spending that much on bandwidth overhead.

The fastest "internet" connection is a OC-192 which is 6400x T1. These make up the bulk of the internet backbone.

OC-768 will eventually replace OC-192's... They are currently only scarcly used for point to point connections at the moment.

[iamsars]

wat speed is considered a t1 line?

[TrainDriver]

isn't T1 approximately 12mbps?

[incyphe]

For 20 computers, a T1 is enough. It's not ideal, but from a business perspective it's the norm to start out with. A T3 is basically 28x the speed of a T1 and costs about $12,000/month from a decent carrier. I don't know of any pc cafe that has a full T3 because it would be overkill and I seriously doubt any pc cafe makes enough of a profit margin to be spending that much on bandwidth overhead.

The fastest "internet" connection is a OC-192 which is 6400x T1. These make up the bulk of the internet backbone.

OC-768 will eventually replace OC-192's... They are currently only scarcly used for point to point connections at the moment.

Yeah I agree, T1 should be enough. T1 is 1.544Mbps. The stupid thing with T3 is that it is about x30 faster, but it also cost 30 times more. No economy of scale there.

But in case a single T1 line is not enough, you can probably get 3 bonded T1 lines for less than $1000/month.

[dot1q]

^ To add to the above, in order to accomodate for future growth, make sure to get a router which has more than 1 integrated wan slot (multichannel interfaces preferred). This way if you need to run multilink ppp (bonding), you are ready to do so.

Also, you do realize that you can't run digital lines (T1) with a regular home router right? Just mentioning because the router and csu/dsu/t1 cards aren't cheap and you should reflect that in to your budget as well.

[wysiwyg]

Is ADSL considered an ok connection? (stability wise)

Also, what's a good program for parental control? (the kind of programs libraries and schools use).