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jmn1207
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join:2000-07-19
Reston, VA | Re: Caps Smokers, overeater, internet gluttons, up against the wall! Should we make a camp for all of the groups that do not meet your standards?
Good riddance to shills. Like that will ever happen. | |
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battleop
join:2005-09-28
00000 | Now you know good and well these guys are not participating in any illegal activity. They are a small group of dedicated linux users who like to share rare and hard to find linux ISOs with each other. | |
| iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO | Or actually sell dedicated internet at a 100% markup of what they pay for the stuff. Wait...that's cheaper than what they're selling the stuff for now. | |
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join:2007-02-19
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| Re: Caps $600 a month for 100 Mbit symmetric, maybe $100 x 2 for colocation at the meet me facility and the destination. Then the fixed costs of some high-performance wireless radios (expensive) and a computer or two for routing (cheap) and you're getting to the "node". From there, you use wireless radios at the base statin and customer levels, and you've got yourself a network. Oversubscribe 7.5:1 (not bad at all considering what people might be using, except for a select few, which the network can suppot anyway) and sell at $10 per Mbit. Assuming 250 customers @ $30/month, you've made back your high-performance-radio costs in under a year, and customer CPE equipment would follow shortly thereafter. All customers (though they wouldn't really) could use 250+ GB of data (130 up, 130 down) without slowing bandwidth down to anyone else. Yes, there will be labor costs, taxes and people who use more than 250 GB per month, but there will also be higher tiers, options to sell double\triple play with a referral discount (but it's fine if the user doesn't take it...the internet is freestanding and still a dumb pipe) and the "average" user who might only consume a few, or a few dozen, gigs per month. Not too bad of a deal there...
Also, I don't know about local loop rates, but around here T1's are cheapish ($360 a month) but back home they're over $1000, even in town. Why? Probably because Verizon (they don't sell even DSL back home) is the only telephone company with only one DSL reseller and that reseller (Windstream) only goes up to 1.5 Mbit/s the last tiem I checked. The only other entity bringing high-speed connectivity into town is the cable company, TWC. .. | |
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NetAdmin
CCNA
join:2008-05-22
| said by baineschile  :Caps get rid of the internet gluttons. Good riddance to them, and hopefully nearind an end for piracy. The problem with that statement is that you equate high use with piracy and piracy alone. Fact is, that is not always the case. If the ISPs are going to start policing user behavior, looking at how much data they transfer is a $hit way of doing it.
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