Bonded T1 ?

[guest]

Please help me. I have been trying to decide on what sort of T1 to get and the sales guy has been talking about Bonded T1? He's tried to explain it but I just don't get it. I have 3Mbits per second but I can't really use it? I'm not too happy with the whole sales support and lack of help.

Your site has a lot of great info on it and I hope you can help me.

[Calum]

Bonded T1's are basically 2 or more T1's that are connected to make a fatter pipe. This does confuse a lot of people so let me try and explain with a few examples.

Lets assume you have 2 T1's bonded together :-

If you have to download a file from the web that is 300Mbits in size then it would take 100 seconds to down load that file (300Mbit file/3Mbits per second bandwidth). This is because the bonded T1's appear to be one large pipe.

Taking the same example but now you have 2 unbonded T1's.

You still have a total of 3Mbits per second bandwidth, however if you have to download one file that's 300Mbits in size it will take 200 seconds. This is because you only have 1.5Mbits per second bandwidth available as the file can not be split and sent down both T1's at the same time. The other T1 is not used for this transfer but is availble for other traffic.

If you had two 300Mbit files to download then it would take 200 seconds to download in either scenario.

Bonded T1's only help if you transfer large data files and time is critical. If time is not an issue and the data transfer is not large then bonded T1's won't help much.

If you are unhappy with you sales guy you should try and get another quote. If you submit your details in our free quote form we can supply a couple of competitive quotes.
http://www.whichvoip.com/voip/biz_large_form.htm

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Calum
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