 gatorkramKaBOOM BabyPremium
join:2002-07-22
Winterville, NC
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 ·Suddenlink
| The bandwidth price myth I find it hard to believe how many people buy into this whole thing about how expensive bandwidth is for the providers to provide. Which a bunch of crap. People have been buying into this whole BS scheme for years...
Just because a T1 costs $900 a month, doesn't mean its really that expensive to provide that line, and bandwidth, and to maintain it. Total BS...
Bandwidth is almost as free as water....
Prove me wrong....
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 MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12
1 edit | »ecc.equinix.com/peering/why.htm
Why do you think people build hundred million dollar neutral peering centers, because bandwidth is cheap? |
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gatorkramKaBOOM BabyPremium
join:2002-07-22
Winterville, NC
kudos:2 | If anything, your link helps prove my point. Thanks.. |
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openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
kudos:2 | reply to gatorkram
Start an ISP and prove yourself right. Based on numerous contracts that I've seen, bandwidth is nowhere close to "as free as water"...unless you're talking about Evian water. Bandwidth cost scales in favor of the consumer as you procure more, but it's still not "free". |
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gatorkramKaBOOM BabyPremium
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Winterville, NC
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| said by openbox9:Start an ISP and prove yourself right. Based on numerous contracts that I've seen, bandwidth is nowhere close to "as free as water"...unless you're talking about Evian water. Bandwidth cost scales in favor of the consumer as you procure more, but it's still not "free". The key word in my statement is "almost"...
And just because someone wants to charge you $5 a gig, do you really think that means that is how much they pay to get it? Basic economics would prove otherwise.
Sure, Mr. Joe Nobody can't walk over to Mr. Backbone provider, and say, hey man, give me some free bandwidth, but that also doesn't give you any idea at all what it really is costing Mr Backbone provider to make that bandwidth available.
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openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
kudos:2 | said by gatorkram:The key word in my statement is "almost"... Not very key if your using it in conjunction with free.said by gatorkram:And just because someone wants to charge you $5 a gig, do you really think that means that is how much they pay to get it? Basic economics would prove otherwise. Don't confuse "data transfer" that you pay for to lease a server in a data center (i.e. your $5/GB) with bandwidth costs (extending transport mechanism, port cost, and/or billing for bandwidth usage). Of course there will always be a retail/wholesale cost differential, but I don't believe it's to the point of "almost free" for the wholesaler. |
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MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | reply to gatorkram
said by gatorkram:If anything, your link helps prove my point. Thanks.. Are you serious or just trolling? Do you pay 100 dollars per Mbps per month?
I know we pay more than 100/Mbps per month for JUST the bandwidth portion of our rack .... and it's in the same Time Warner Regional Data Center where all the CMTS are fed.
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gatorkramKaBOOM BabyPremium
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Winterville, NC
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| You are confusing the different between what it costs YOU compared to what it is costing the bandwidth provider to provide it to you.
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