LogFAQs > #905776839

DarkTransient posted...

If they wanted to add one using very high-end gear, you should be looking at about $150-$200 for the part, maybe $10-$15 worth of ethernet cable in an extreme case, and perhaps an hour or two of labour.

A few hundred sure, a few thousand is a joke.

For real. I'm not sure if it's the IT team being lazy/authoritarian, or if they're bound by some stupid legal contract they signed when they got the internet connection. I DO know that we have multiple direct fiber connections to a datacenter (run by a company called QTS), with the infrastructure provided by Verizon Enterprise. That may be part of the problem - the facility is leasing multiple lines that are meant for literal enterprise datacenter usage when they should be on a standard business plan for our needs. We don't need a direct fiber link to an IXP at the shop level, we need good ol' fashioned business-class service.