Re: Broken Internet?

[Peter Francis <peter () softaware com>]

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> Any business needs:
> 1. to be able to change upstream providers without having to renumber.

Why? Intelligent use of DNS and dhcp make renumbering only a minor inconvenience.

> 2. to be able to change access providers without having to suffer
> multi-month down-times.

Mission/business critical services should be in a co-lo anyway and not off a DSL line.

> 3. to be able to have its net-block(s) visible regardless of which ISPs they
> are currently using.

How do you propose doing this without growing the routing table 1-2 orders of magnitude?

> Currently the only ones that can do that are those that;
> 1. Are large enough to justify a /20 (begging the question of how they got
> that large).
> 2. Can afford their own datacenter.
>
> It looks like our technical solutions are raising unreasonable barriers to
> entry for small businesses.

No.  Co-lo your website and "intranet".  Get two T1's that same provider via two different entry points/carriers to 
your office (if possible) and you should be about as rock solid you could expect for $2-3000/month or there abouts.

Peter