insomniac84
join:2002-01-03
Schererville, IN
| reply to fatmanskinny
Re: Corporate greed is reaching new levels....
It doesn't make any sense. The prices of all services always included the price of bandwidth. Because bandwidth is cheap. 500gigs only costs 50 cents or less.
It just seems ISPs are going to follow the oil model. When you control supply, make it sparse to justify charging a ridiculous price for it. So they purposely don't upgrade anything as they get new customers or when customers start to use what they have been paying for. This allows them to claim networks cannot support it and therefore they need to charge a 1000% increase for bandwidth to conserve their limited resources. But I guess this is what happens when you are under pressure to have a 10% increase in stock price every year no matter if you really grow or not. Profits are meaningless to these companies. It's only about increased profits. And that means raising prices on existing customers to pretend you are experiencing growth. |
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battleop
join:2005-09-28
00000 | BS! If you find me 500Gb for 50 cents or less delivered I will buy it right this very minute. |
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karlmarx
join:2006-09-18
iraq | www.dreamhost.com
5TB of transfers, $5.95/month. That's $.60 cents per 500 GB. Close enough. |
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openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA | First comparing cost of bandwidth in a datacenter and delivered via the last mile is apples and oranges. Second, have you pushed 5 TB with Dreamhost, because I seriously doubt you ever get 5 TB for $6/mth in a shared hosting plan. |
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insomniac84
join:2002-01-03
Schererville, IN
| reply to battleop
said by battleop  :BS! If you find me 500Gb for 50 cents or less delivered I will buy it right this very minute. Are you saying this was a lie?
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Guspaz
Guspaz
Premium,MVM
join:2001-11-05
Montreal, QC
 ·Colbanet
| reply to battleop
It is BS. Cheapest transit you'll find is $4/mbit from Cogent. That comes out to (at 100% utilization) roughly 321GB, or (divide by eight) ~40.2GB per 50 cents. Of course, Bell's network is internal and self-owned, so their costs would be significantly lower than this. |
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pspcrazy
Anime Freak
join:2008-02-06
San Diego, CA | reply to openbox9
Dreamhost will cut you off at 400 GB's (usually less) or so since they aren't exactly the most honest people. I pay around 5 cents a gb for my datacenter for the first 2 TB's of data then 10 cents overage for everyother gb. It's really really cheap. |
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battleop
join:2005-09-28
00000 | reply to karlmarx
That's shared bandwidth in a data center. Thanks for playing. Please try again. |
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battleop
join:2005-09-28
00000 | reply to insomniac84
That may be the raw cost of bandwidth but it certainly not the cost of delivering that bandwidth. |
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openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA | reply to pspcrazy
There's still a huge difference between the cost of bandwidth in a datacenter or a peering point and the last mile broadband connections heading into people's homes. |
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