| Q: Some Internet Service Providers
provide & maintain my DNS entries. Do you provide that service?
A:
We provide full DNS services for dedicated
Internet domain customers at no additional charge for the first domain, and
$10.00 per month for foreign (non-connectivity) domains.
Q: Do you offer a
newsgroup server?
A:
Our newsgroup server is
news.ntusa.net. It is however only available to our clients.
Q:
Are there any additional phone charges from
BellSouth?
A:
No. ADSL Telco charges are all
inclusive in our base monthly recurring charge.
Q: What if I need
more than 61 static IP addresses?
A:
If over 61 IP’s are needed, the next tier is 125
- add $100 /monthly to the 61 address price level.
Q:
I use my own e-mail server - do I get a rate
reduction?
A:
We include e-mail accounts per the number of
hosts connected at our domain (yourname@4netpros.net) as a courtesy at no
charge; therefore no credit will be issued if not used. Domain based e-mail
hosting is available at our facility. Please refer to the pricing on the
email pages.
Q: What is
the availability guarantee?
A:
Any service disruption in excess of 4 hours
except, as an Act of God, will be credited on your next monthly bill.
Q:
What network management do you provide (outside of
my router)?
A:
We can provide network-monitoring services via
SNMP agents for Novell and/or Windows NT servers, and remote support of
workstations via PC Anywhere, Microsoft SMS, or Novell Managewise.
Q:
Do you provide any service level network
statistics?
A:
Currently no. This is a brand new
service for both Bellsouth Industrial and us. It is currently substantially
under-subscribed, and therefore performance is very high. Bellsouth
Industrial's ADSL tariff is for a best efforts service (i.e. a shared
access service from your location to the ATM switching center). From the ATM
switching center, we have primary control of the level of circuit provisioning,
and are confident that you will get good performance.
Q:
What speed does a Web Server, Mail Server, FTP
Server, etc. get to the Internet?
A:
ADSL is not a symmetrical service. While
you get 1.54 mbps burst rates when reading data from the Internet, the speed
from your web site, browser, email or FTP servers will be limited to 256 kbps.
If you are co-locating high volume web servers, FTP servers, e-mail servers,
and/or more than 61 host PC’s, we would recommend our Burstable T-1 connection.
That is a symmetrical 1.54 mbps connection. It comes with up to 253 IP
addresses at no additional charge, and guarantees full T-1 speeds in both
directions for $700.00/month plus local-loop charges. If a Burstable ‘T-1’
exceeds 512 KB/sec average utilization, an "exceeding committed bandwidth"
charge kicks in.
Q:
What if we are dissatisfied with your current ADSL
service?
A:
We will work diligently with all of our services
to satisfy your needs. If our ADSL service is not "cutting it" for you, we will
seek an alternate solution that will meet your performance requirements. If all
else fails, you can cancel your ADSL contract within the first 60 days of
service initialization with no penalty, credit you one month's fees, as well as
credit you for the ADSL equipment costs upon return of equipment. Setup fees
are non-refundable.
Q:
Are you going to be offering Symmetrical Digital
Subscriber Line (SDSL)?
A:
We are
currently investigating this service. If we will be able to offer
SDSL with guaranteed burst rates, we would be happy to allow you to switch
over to any of those services with no penalties against your contract if a
symmetrical circuit would better suit your needs.
Q:
Is tech service available 24/7?
A:
Our technical staff is
available Monday through Friday, from 8:30AM - 5:30PM at 919-851-7000 and a
technician is on call by paged voice message after hours, 7 days per week - 24
hours per day.
Q: Can I get a list of current customers?
A:
We will be glad to provide you with a short list
of clients that have agreed to be contacted as references. We do not give out
our full list of clients, their and your privacy is important to us. We will be
happy to contact clients individually in your area of interest, and request
permission to release information to you. Please call sales at 919-303-6447, or
e-mail at sales@4netpros.com
and we will forward a reference list to you. |