Leased Lines - Pricing?

Ironic Namesake

Ironic Namesake

Ironic Namesake

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After waiting endlessly (Virgin order has been open since January!) to get a half decent internet connection for our London office we've decided to bite the bullet and get a leased line (100mb).

Got quite a few quotes of the last month or so and are close to making a decision, just wanted to get some opinions from those in the know before signing up.

So far we're looking at the below (12 month contract)

  • Initial costs covered by SCC scheme
  • Cisco 1921 router (managed)
  • 99.93% uptime guaranteed
  • Guarantees on Packet Loss Max 0.01%; Latency <10ms; Jitter <3ms
  • 5 x Static IPs

Around £490 / month

Does this sound reasonable?
 
thats within a tenner of what our company pays from BT with the only difference being we have 32 IP addresses.

such a lot of money really but I love it for ahem.... personal use!
 
Ploppy2k3 said:
thats within a tenner of what our company pays from BT with the only difference being we have 32 IP addresses.

such a lot of money really but I love it for ahem.... personal use!
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BT quoted around 15% more, but they wanted 5 year contract.

I don't believe bandwidth will be more expensive in a year's time so I don't see much point in signing up for longer than 12 months at a time
 
C&W provided fibre installs are usually free installation on 3 year contracts. On 1 year contracts you might have to shell out ~£3.5k for standard install.

I'd give Fluidata a call, they've come up trumps on our last few rounds of tenders for clients.
 
Yamahahahahaha said:
C&W provided fibre installs are usually free installation on 3 year contracts. On 1 year contracts you might have to shell out ~£3.5k for standard install.

I'd give Fluidata a call, they've come up trumps on our last few rounds of tenders for clients.
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I did contact Fluidata who came out competitive on EFM solutions - but that was limited to a maximum of 20mb (which also means we wouldn't eligible for the super connected cities voucher scheme)

Using the voucher scheme, we can get up to £3k covered for installation (cost of installation + router is approx £2500 on this 1 year term)
 
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