# cable modem vs. T1 **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 31, 2003, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cable-modem-vs-t1/165335 "2003-03-31T01:10:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![polymur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7993a0/32.png) [@polymur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/polymur)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cable-modem-vs-t1/165335/1 "2003-03-31T01:10:39Z")
(disclaimer: I tried to search for any previous thread on this, but T1 is not recognized by search engine) My company’s t1 costs about $800 and gets about 1.5m/second up and down stream. My cable modem at home gets about 3.5mbps/second down and 98kbps/second up for $50. My understanding is that att/comcast keeps upstream limited so you can’t run a server, etc. My questions are: 1. Why is there such a disparity between residential and corporate prices? 2. Is there something about upstream that is more costly? 3. Can I sign my company up for cable modem for $50 - $100 and get some sort of cheap redundancy (ISDN, 4 56K combined lines, etc) for an expected lower uptime comittment? BTW, we don’t run servers out of our office … that is outsourced. What’s the real deal, why am I paying 16 times more at the office for slower speed? ---
**Author:** ![polymur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7993a0/32.png) [@polymur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/polymur)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cable-modem-vs-t1/165335/2 "2003-03-31T01:11:56Z")
Mod, please delete this duplicate … it got posted accidentally with back button