[olug] Cox Issues Was: Cox sucks

[Sam Tetherow]

Except pricing doesn't work out that well. 14Mbit is 2450, the loop is 
over half the cost on a DS3 and it does not scale linearly.

Sam Tetherow
Sandhills Wireless

Daniel Linder wrote:
> On Fri, July 20, 2007 00:02, Sam Tetherow wrote:
>   
>> My DS3 in Valentine is $3850/mo, that is transport and IP. It is a Qwest
>> line resold by Bandwidth.com. In Lincoln I can get it for about
>> $125/mbps wirelessly with as low as a couple of mbps commit. T1s are
>> still prohibitive in Qwest territory running between $500-$750. I
>> haven't priced Lincoln T1s recently.
>>     
>
> Hmm, a DS3 is 45Mbit (IIRC).  So, if I had a 10Mbit connection at home and
> I wanted to have a guaranteed 10Mbit allocation of that, my cost would be
> $(( 10/45 * 3850 )) or $855.56 (plus something for you to maintain the
> router with the DS3 card). :)
>
> <humor>
> Now, can I find an ISP that will guarantee that my 10Mbit speed is
> *everywhere* at *all times*?
> Even a lowly 10Mbit connection into every BitTorrent seeder computer would
> be great!
> </humor>
>
> Dan
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