Perhaps some of you IT guys or business owners can chime in....

I'm moving my company office to a new location, and they don't offer FIOS or DSL at this new location. My only choices are Cable or T1.

At the same time, I'm trying to combine my voice & internet services to a single provider. I have 5 phone lines that will obviously be working over VOIP, and 5 workstations connected to the line. Also, there will be someone working remotely who will constantly be connected by VPN and they will also have a remote phone using VOIP during normal business hours.

One more little piece of information is that we are a music company, and while we don't host our own website, we spend a considerable amount of time uploading music to it -- in fact I would say that overall we probably do more uploading (not in time, but in bandwidth) than downloading.

So the cost differential is about $100/month less for Cable. The T1 provider promises a "4-hour" repair service if the line ever goes down. They also offer to configure the IP addresses & DHCP for our network on the router that they provide for free. If we go with Cable, we would have to purchase a router and hire someone to set it up on our network. Cable also seems to offer no kind of time guarantee if the line goes down.

The Cable provider is Cablevision, and the DSL provider we are considering is Megapath Networks.

Any advise?

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