Looking to change the organizations ISP.

[GeoDM]

I am looking to replace our current ISP. We roughly have 60 machines and just a few websites hosted internally. Our current setup is a T1 with 1.54mb dedicated.

What would be the downfall to moving toward a cable company for internet service? Its 8mb down and 1mb up. I am thinking about getting 2 lines and having a load balancing router manage the connection. In my head this sounds good but the price is obviously hundreds of dollars cheaper and I am wondering what I will be missing.

 

[artesian2000]

8 down 1 up is that guaranteed always bandwidth? Whereas your t-1 will give you the fixed 1.5 all the time not sure what SLA's with cable you get. The only other thing I can think of is when switching is the fact you'll need to number your network with the cable companies ip space and go through the mx record updates ect

 

[GeoDM]

The guaranteed bandwidth is exactly what I am worried about. Thats a questions on my list for the ISP.