What’s better than a T1 in your home? Two T1s

Broadband access is the driver behind the smooth operation of many households, I know with 9 computers in mine it’s a big part of our world.  I have been using a cable modem for years and even though I’ve seen the bandwidth upgraded over time it can still suffer from occasional "overcrowding".  It’s particularly noticeable in the evenings as folks get home from work and begin jumping online.  The only way around that is to install a dedicated data line like a T1.  Or better yet, two T1s.  Covad is rolling out a new service for home & small businesses that uses two T1 lines bonded together to provide double the bandwidth of a singe T1.  When they asked me to evaluate this new service how long do you think it took me to say yes?  Nope, not that long.

The dual T1s have been run to the house and yesterday a very nice Covad tech came to my home office and got everything hooked up.  I have only been using it for a few hours in total but it has been powering my home network with rock solid bandwidth since it went live.  I hooked the Airport Extreme wireless router to the Cisco router that Covad supplied and we are seeing no latency issues or speed dips as you would expect from such horsepower.  Prior to the install I expected to see the biggest speed increase for uploads as the dual T1 pipe is full throttle both ways and I haven’t been disappointed with that for sure.  I upload a lot of audio and video recordings and this improved upload bandwidth is going to save me literally hours each month.  Here’s a typical bandwidth speed test I just ran:

Bandwidth_dual_t1s

I’m cooking now!  :)

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