Originally Posted By: matthew_k
real routing hardware, and real traffic shaping hardware.

A cheap or old PC running Linux with the necessary cards in it will do both of those with no problems.

Originally Posted By: matthew_k
It's not going to be cheap. In the outside world, people pay $20-40 a month for their home internet connection which usually serves at most 4 people. $10 a month times 150 residents, and you should be looking at spending 1.5k a month on the connection for residents pretty easily.

The two T1s aren't cheap. They're significantly more expensive than a home connection.