MrClass wrote
Based on experience, Microwave has alot of stability issues and much more downtime than DSL.
Also DSL is cheaper which should bring the cost down, but the link will be limited in bandwidth.
The best latency I've had on microwave was 130ms, while DSL was 65ms; both were Cyberia ISP and Cable1 DSP.
If you're going with a dedicated line, I highly advise to negotiate who the DSP will be. Cable1 and Pesco are great if you have coverage there. NEVER GO WITH GDS. EVER.
Basing on experience without deep analysis is wrong. I am absolutely sure proper microwave will be much more reliable and lower latency than DSL by multiple reasons.
If we talk about regular DSL, it depends much more than microwave link, in matters of reliability also - on billing(radius auth), BRAS(LAC/LNS), congestion/load of particular DSLAM and exchange, copper wiring that is passing publicly accessible wiring cabinets.
And don't expect this shared appliance will be adjusted for need of one customer, while personal microwave link, DSP are interested to keep on, to return their investments.
It's fine when you use DSL for home internet, but when you business depends on connection and even 30 seconds downtime will be noticeable - you need or fiber or microwave.
Such latency difference depends on what route ISP will put you (if it has capability to change it), it has absolutely nothing to do with last mile media.
About cable1 i can't confirm, some of customers had mixed experience, but i dont have enough feedback, but Pesco i confirm, they work quite well and using carrier grade equipment, it dont have any issues except at heavy raining, they might get short outages. However they dont have support at night, rarely when their equipment crash(with me it happened on all customers 2-3 times per year, mostly after they did bandwidth upgrade), you might need to wait until morning.
With DSL, if you are unlucky, you might be crawling and begging for days for ISP, who will bounce you to Ogero, and Ogero will bounce back to ISP, because communication between ISPs and understaffed Ogero kind of bad.