Honestly? Yes. Yes they would. I'm aware of what a 99% uptime would be, and I've seen better than that from my home connection, though I realize there will be differences.

At the moment, their connection gets so slow as to be nearly unusable for much of the time anyway. Even if they aren't guaranteed the 50/20Mbps 100% of the time, chances are it's rarely if ever going to drop to 1.5Mbps, correct?

Anyway, the point might be moot. I'll have to see if Verizon even had fiber running through that neighborhood at all.

Another appealing aspect is that with the enormous savings, the building could get two lines and still save a ton of money. Right now they have two completely separate networks, essentially one provided to the students for leisure and homework, and one feeding the operation and education side, but they both share the internet connection. This means that when the students decide to use bittorrent, the entire building gets shut off if the ISP decides so (which they did last semester). With two lines, they could always keep the educational side up.

I appreciate the education on T1 lines, too. I'm glad to see my research isn't off. I'm really leaning to dropping the T1, because they really don't have the need for that SLA...