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Still, although ANI may not be "spoofable," it can be manipulated or uninformative. For example, any call placed from any phone in my office carries a general company ANI even though the call could be originated from any of hundreds of phone numbers owned by the firm. We also have off-premise extensions (OPXs) that connect to the office PBX via SIP. Calls placed from those OPXs have the same ANI as calls made from the physical office, which would be deleterious if a call was placed to 911 from one of these phone. (We have implemented a safety workaround for this, but the point still stands.)

Dell XPS M1530
Intel Core 2 Duo (2.16ghz)
3 gigs RAM
Dual Booting Windows Vista Home Premium AND Ubuntu 8.10

http://www.bandwidth.com/tools/speedTest/

Six tests per OS.

Vista: Download/Upload
7616/2795
7865/2724
6407/2755
10050/2800
12320/3925
15854/2905

Ubuntu: Download/Upload
12939/5897
8849/12122
15373/18646
20040/17093
8461/14969
17885/13807

Screenshots of it didn't happen.

On the related note I just did the same test with XP and Ubuntu on some random pc and I got these average results XP: 15236/5364 Ubuntu 14563/4561.

Same story. Mod parent down.

Dell XPS M1530 Intel Core 2 Duo (2.16ghz) 3 gigs RAM Dual Booting Windows Vista Home Premium AND Ubuntu 8.10 http://www.bandwidth.com/tools/speedTest/ Six tests per OS. Vista: Download/Upload 7616/2795 7865/2724 6407/2755 10050/2800 12320/3925 15854/2905 Ubuntu: Download/Upload 12939/5897 8849/12122 15373/18646 20040/17093 8461/14969 17885/13807

since it sounds like you all want to share one connection, im guessing you are gonna want a pretty damn fast connection, a la T1 or partial T3. check out this site for quotes, i found it to be a good resource: Bandwidth.com

If you do not beleive me contact the fine folks at Bandwidth.com, and they will look at all the Internet carriers and quote you a price to get a T1 or fractional T1 to you house.

I guess this is one of the drawbacks for being a controled monopoly. The telcos have to live under certain restrictions that require them to provide service to everyone. They may not like it, and they may drag thier feet providing it, but they will provide it. If you are getting service it helps having a national carrier lighting a fire under them to get the installs done in a timely manner. The national carrier know all the rules and regs, and can occationaly remind the local carriers of this

I'd also like to second Speakeasy as a cost-effective solution. My friend has our geekhouse server in our closet from Speakeasy, they sent a very knowledgable guy out to do the install, have been helpful whenever we've needed it and had extremely little downtime.

The 1100Kbps up/down connection we have runs about 350$ a month, which is less than half that of any T1 connection in the area. When I spoke to a guy at bandwith.com he said the best he could do for a simalar price was a 384Kbps dedicated connection. Our pings stay under 20 ms to most sites, and if you host a few pages, then you'll easily be able to recoop the costs of the connection.

The only potential snag you may run into is that they may try to route your packets through a far-away place; for us the packets were originally travelling from LA through Seattle, back to LA (sounds like a UPS shipping route) making latency a bit of an issue. We paid them a bit extra to move our traffic only through a LA server, but even with this additional cost, its still much cheaper than any alternative we've seen.

There's a bandwidth chart at the bottom of Bandwidth.com.