Area network extension question

**Warprosper** · 10-24-12, 11:51 AM

Originally Posted by jmw_man

What's the best way to go about finding a consultant? I've spoken to several IT companies but they all came on the basis on providing us with a quote for extending our network to the other facility. They claim they are consultants, and I agree they are consultants, but they suggested laying fiber along the right-of-way to the other facility and quoted us for the work to do just that.

Your best bet is to talk to some of your local ISP business providers. They can provide some good insight into what you will need. Not all of the employees are going to be top notch but you may get lucky and have your Comcast rep suggest. If you talk to IT consultants in the area they are most likely going to throw quotes for services that they wont explain.

For a ball park figure .....We just ran about 600 ft of fiber underground from our main building to an annex building for approximately $9,000

**jmw_man** · 10-24-12, 12:23 PM

Yea, $9000 sounds about right, we were quoted $8000. Then there was another $13000 ($8xxx for some replacement components and $4xxx for labor to refresh the network and documentation.) I'll talk to Comcast.

**Partyball** · 10-24-12, 02:11 PM

Where are you located?

**jmw_man** · 10-24-12, 02:47 PM

Originally Posted by Partyball

Where are you located?

Houston

**digital** · 10-24-12, 07:06 PM

I work for comcast. Your connection is not shared in the literal sense. Yes everyone is tapped into the same major fiber optic backbone but everyone in your neighborhood or business complex could have my company's service and you couldn't tell.

That was some made up tech bs from 10 years ago by the telecom companies which as of 2001 were legally forced to stop mentioning since there is no technical data to back up the statement

Sent from my Motorola Photon Cannon!

**jmw_man** · 10-25-12, 08:44 AM

How can I learn about the performance during peak hours?

**Warprosper** · 10-25-12, 08:58 AM

Originally Posted by jmw_man

How can I learn about the performance during peak hours?

You wont even have to worry about it. You're currently running on 1.5mb.. On a bad day your speed with Comcast business may drop to about 15-20mb.

**Bunni** · 10-25-12, 09:37 AM

setup an array of cantennas at each site, ad hoc. If your a small company and not really needing super a super reduent connection, should work pretty well... Would be a lot cheaper than paying the city to lay down some lines... right?

Plus is tech-awesome... Win-win.

350 ft though... if your going through other buildings might be a problem....

Whats your companies average internal throughput?

**jmw_man** · 10-30-12, 08:25 AM

Bunni, I was looking for an official definition of internal throughput but couldn't find one. Anyways, I made the obvious assumption. Does the post below answer your question?

Originally Posted by jmw_man

Actually, never noticed it before, but the resource monitor in the task manager shows the bandwidth being used. I observed the data for a period of time and wrote down the max values for send, receive, and total in B/min. Send was 7000 B/min, receive was 11,000 B/min, and total was around 17,000 B/min. The total is something like .000333 Megabytes/second. Like I said, isn't much.

Our service is only 1.5 Mbps, that's .1875 MB/s. Honestly, if it was possibly to get this kind of bandwidth then that would be awesome.