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need to find reasonable pricing for Business internet access in Dallas

  • My wife is opening up a dance/fitness studio within the next couple of weeks and my task for the past week has been to source a business internet provider for her. And I have hit a brick wall. Charter advertises their business internet as 60MB speed for $55. a month. Sounds great, right? But they don't have coverage in my wife's location (basically Addison/Carrollton 75006). TWC wants $300. a month for slightly more than half that speed (35MB). We attempted to s/w Verizon, but they were supposed to call back and have not done so...Does the community have any helpful suggestions for other providers?

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    What y'all are missing is that every provider I've encountered in the D/FW area always charges business rates when at a business. If you have a house you can get residential or commercial service but an install in a shopping center (just guessing where this dance studio might be located) is going to be the higher rate.

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Your second choice will depend on your phone company. If you're in Addison (75001), it's AT&T. If you're in almost all of Carrollton, it's Verizon. You have no third option, except for wireless, unless you want to pay for a leased circuit and a very expensive data connection.

fireoyster

You can check out http://www.clear.com/ AT&T Uverse might be available, or http://www.att.com/#fbid=Vvtw6s_SdH3 may have something that will work for you.

Ruthless Bunny

This seems like overkill for a dance studio. I assume your wife will have one or two computers using the connection? If so, it seems like regular consumer-grade Internet would suffice, no?

ewiar

Yeah, you left out some relevant information. How many people will use the studio's connection? What for?

askmehow

I agree that this seems like overkill for a dance studio. Have you considered adding a http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/device/mobile-hotspot?&zipRdr=y to your mobile plan?

melissasaurus

I agree with the above-- A personal account should be just fine for most things including video streaming from the net, and if she needs web-hosting, she should co-locate or remote-host the site somewhere else rather than running it through a private connection. If she's uploading video, or other sorts live feeds (multiple webcams, e.g.), that's where she'll have a bandwidth need that she can't displace to a web host. The difference between personal and business broadband accounts, generally speaking, are that business accounts might get dedicated lines, uptime guarantees, greater upload bandwidth of the sort needed for web servers and other services (personal accounts very often have low upload). However, in 100% of cases, they are priced for a business market, no matter how comparable they are to a personal account.

Sunburnt

You should just get a personal account. And stay clear of Clear - I had huge problems when I used it.

Dansaman

Could she chip in on the bill for the business next door? Their wifi probably extends to her.

amaire

I was also thinking about offering to split the bill with a neighbor and using wifi off of their service.

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