New Yorkers - cost of fibre?

osaddictosaddict London, UK
edited May 2011 in Science & Tech
We've got a 50mb up and down fibre connection in our London office which costs us in the region of £900 per month.

We're looking to move offices in the US and move to a non-serviced location - i.e. we'll have to get our own internet lines.

Fibre was my first port of call here, however, the first quote I've got back is more expensive (when converting £ to $ at www.xe.rates) than our London offering for only 10mb!

Just wondering if some of the NYC guys can give me pointers on costs I could expect and perhaps better still the ISPs to contact who have a good reputation (and also those to avoid!)

Cheers :)

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  • TushonTushon I'm scared, Coach Alexandria, VA Icrontian
    edited May 2011
    Some googling yielded this, but you'll have to wait for either someone else to speak up or start looking at reviews. We are backwards about internet access here in the states.

    http://www.voxlinenetworks.com/broadband-rates.html ~1300 GBP for 45/45
    http://www.fibroptix.com/offer_en.html ~575 GBP for 100 down, no stated up
    Verizon FiOS is offered in new york, but I couldn't see pricing for business class
  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited May 2011
    Here's a FiOS pricing guide:
    http://www.verizonbusiness.com/Medium/products/internet/fios/options.xml
  • TushonTushon I'm scared, Coach Alexandria, VA Icrontian
    edited May 2011
    That is pretty sexy pricing.
  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited May 2011
    Too bad my company is over 15,000 feet away from the nearest CO. Would have been nice to use FiOS instead of cable.
  • TushonTushon I'm scared, Coach Alexandria, VA Icrontian
    edited May 2011
    On the job:
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  • osaddictosaddict London, UK
    edited May 2011
    That looks really cheap compared to 'traditional' business fibre, what's the difference?! - It's not clear from their website if it's shared/contended etc but I didn't dig through everything...
  • RootWyrmRootWyrm Icrontian
    edited May 2011
    osaddict wrote:
    That looks really cheap compared to 'traditional' business fibre, what's the difference?! - It's not clear from their website if it's shared/contended etc but I didn't dig through everything...

    FiOS is usually at a >150:1 contention with a >250:1 oversale based on stated bandwidth capability. Some areas may be greater or lower of course. Also, it's a maximum of one IP - no subnets for either IPv4 or IPv6. You're also subject to their router with their NAT; the only FiOS CPE out there is exclusively sold to Verizon, so you cannot replace it.

    Can you tell me the criticality of the connection and the amount of bandwidth you require in both directions? I can do some poking. You are going to have to get a business connection and not a residential no matter who you go with though. I suspect depending on your location, you're going to end up needing either leased line or metro ethernet, both of which will cost a lot more than £900 per month.
  • osaddictosaddict London, UK
    edited May 2011
    RootWyrm wrote:
    FiOS is usually at a >150:1 contention with a >250:1 oversale based on stated bandwidth capability. Some areas may be greater or lower of course. Also, it's a maximum of one IP - no subnets for either IPv4 or IPv6. You're also subject to their router with their NAT; the only FiOS CPE out there is exclusively sold to Verizon, so you cannot replace it.

    Can you tell me the criticality of the connection and the amount of bandwidth you require in both directions? I can do some poking. You are going to have to get a business connection and not a residential no matter who you go with though. I suspect depending on your location, you're going to end up needing either leased line or metro ethernet, both of which will cost a lot more than £900 per month.

    Ah I see, I guess a case of you get what you pay for. The connection would be critical, bandwidth requirements aren't mad - 50mb fibre would be overkill but out experience with other stuff like SDSL is that it's just no good really.

    It seems Cogent are in one of the offices we're considering which it seems cuts the price and lead time quite a bit, which is nice :)
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