 MaggsPremium
join:2002-11-29
Woodside, NY | If they do... I'm promptly dropping my internet connection in favor of dialup. I use about 30GB a month and at a penny per kb it gets expensive.
1,024kb = 1MB * 1024MB = 1 GB =
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| said by Maggs:I'm promptly dropping my internet connection in favor of dialup. I use about 30GB a month and at a penny per kb it gets expensive. 1,024kb = 1MB * 1024MB = 1 GB = That won't be the pricing model.
It will be much more likely priced tiers by data transferred instead of speeds.
For example:
$42.95 flat rate up to 50 GB/mo
$52.95 flat rate up to 100 GB/mo
$72.95 flat rate up to 150 GB/mo
and the more bandwidth is consumed, the tier prices won't be going up in a straight line. But will go up on ever steeper curve.
$112.95 flat rate up to 200 GB/mo
$172.95 flat rate up to 250 GB/mo
etc.
etc.
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 ftthzIf love can kill hate can also save
join:2005-10-17 | at those prices you quoted I'd easily get a server at colo with a TB or 2 at 100mbits... geez |
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| said by ftthz:at those prices you quoted I'd easily get a server at colo with a TB or 2 at 100mbits... geez Then you will find out most datacenters do not allow torrent or outright copyright piracy in their TOS. Either way, if you get a server and download a TB worth of "linux distros", how the hell do you get those "linux distros" from the server to your machine? I guess you could pay somebody at the datacenter to burn them on a DVD for you, but that would be expensive.
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 dadkinsCan you do Blu?Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
kudos:18 | reply to fAcEtIOUs
Bring it!
While I would REALLY rather they did not do this, my *current* usage would be under the radar. 
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1 edit | said by dadkins:Bring it! While I would REALLY rather they did not do this, my *current* usage would be under the radar. Your usage is indicative of a heavy user, but nowhere near a bandwidth hog. My usage usually totals about 5 GB/mo and ranges from 3 to 10 GB/mo.
And much to the regret of some here, I am online a lot.  If they aren't one of the few doing massive P2P file transfers, they have no worries about byte tiers instead of speed tiers.
P.S. - looking at your Oct/07 numbers I'd say you were doing some back up of files to an online file storage system.
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dadkinsCan you do Blu?Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
kudos:18
1 edit | Yeppers!
Gotta have that offsite backup...
Some of that is LAN traffic as well.
Usually, I stay under 30GB per month.
This *DOES* include movies and a little "other" video content. 
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join:2001-03-27
San Antonio, TX | reply to texans20
said by texans20:Then you will find out most datacenters do not allow torrent or outright copyright piracy in their TOS. Either way, if you get a server and download a TB worth of "linux distros", how the hell do you get those "linux distros" from the server to your machine? I guess you could pay somebody at the datacenter to burn them on a DVD for you, but that would be expensive. But that is more for liability reasons than bandwidth ones. The point that he is making is that if they want to go on a pay/byte setup, give us the fair rates that said datacenters would provide, as well as the speed. Fact of the matter is, if they were to give us those rates (ie, the honest bandwidth cost plus their cut), they would lose money in comparison because only hogs would be really using/paying it. |
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