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Cobbler's Kids Shoes Syndrome
Posted by Jeff Cavanaugh on Wednesday, December 23, 2009
IT companies sometimes suffer from the “Cobbler’s Kid’s Shoes Syndrome”. The cobbler never gets around to fixing his kid’s shoes, because he is busy doing his work for pay, and his kids are going around town with embarrassingly worn shoes. Sometimes Geek Officecalls has this problem. Recently, our 3 year old router began to show its age and we had to reboot it a lot and sometimes it took several reboots to get it to work. So, this week, I installed a new router. I’d like to share with you some of the awesome benefits of this router (which wasn’t hideously expensive).
The most exciting thing about our new router is that it lets us use two internet connections. When we first started in this location we had internet through cable. Later, we got a T1 line. We kept the cable line as a backup. So when I got a new router I wanted something that would let us failover from one line to another automatically. For under $1000 I got a business class router that not only fails over automatically, but balances our internet load between the 2 connections. This has sped up our internet dramatically and given us much better reliability that is so crucial to a small business.
I’ve observed that many of our customers are becoming more and more dependent on web-based applications such as e-mail, customer databases (salesforce.com and others) and web-based meetings and collaboration. Internet outages are becoming one of the more annoying issues facing small businesses. Having 2 ISPs with a router like this may be something for a small business to consider these days. For less than $1000 for the router and $200/month for both a cable and dsl connection you could have this capability. I’d love to hear thoughts on this from small business owners !
The most exciting thing about our new router is that it lets us use two internet connections. When we first started in this location we had internet through cable. Later, we got a T1 line. We kept the cable line as a backup. So when I got a new router I wanted something that would let us failover from one line to another automatically. For under $1000 I got a business class router that not only fails over automatically, but balances our internet load between the 2 connections. This has sped up our internet dramatically and given us much better reliability that is so crucial to a small business.
I’ve observed that many of our customers are becoming more and more dependent on web-based applications such as e-mail, customer databases (salesforce.com and others) and web-based meetings and collaboration. Internet outages are becoming one of the more annoying issues facing small businesses. Having 2 ISPs with a router like this may be something for a small business to consider these days. For less than $1000 for the router and $200/month for both a cable and dsl connection you could have this capability. I’d love to hear thoughts on this from small business owners !