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Chandler, AZ | reply to rebus9
Re: All that money yet a 400 GB cap said by rebus9:I don't know where you get your figures, but they are not realistic. I can pull in a 100 Mbps circuit into a colo cabinet, with a full 20 Mbps commit, for $160/month with no restrictions. I can push 20 Mbps upstream AND downstream, simultaneously, 24x7x365 if I wanted to. And the price is still $160. but to expect similar results in the last mile space are as equally unrealistic. its much cheaper to drag a 100meg fiber a few hundred meters over short haul optics than it is to trench a bundle of singlemode fiber with long-haul optics. the reason a colo is cheap is because they have created an "economy of scale" with transit providers peering in a neutal location and forcing them to compete for customers and peering relationships.
comparing the data centre with the last mile results in no meaningful comparison because there is no useful reference point.
Last-mile residential, yes, 100 Mbps is pretty spicy. But the 400 GB cap blows a hole right through it.
i consider myself a power user. my wife and i have no cable - everything we get is either ota, netflix, hulu, or espn360. we both stream pandora and sirius heavily. we watch hd video on our roku box. i often work on computers and am either downloading windows updates or patching my herd of boxen at home. my heavy flow months are ~150gb. there are nights when my wife will blow through 10gig/day on netflix, but she is literally watching it most of the day when she does that.
Now of course you're asking, who would need 3 streams unless you're a pirate. Open your brain. Think: parents in the living room, teenagers in their bedrooms. 3 streams is easily 10-15 mbps, for hours at a time.
how often are your teenagers home watching television? i think back to my teen years, i was *always* out doing something - homework, sports, hanging with friends. every now and then we'd go to someone's house and watch a movie or something - but it was always a *new* release. while i can see where people would blow through 400gig, i'd love to see people legitimately hitting that number *without* pirating material.
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