 joebarnhartPaxio evangelist
join:2005-12-15
Santa Clara, CA | reply to iansltx
Re: Wonder what markets get the 100 Mb? said by iansltx:Then there are those of us who use 150+ GB per month on a regular basis, for which 50¢ per GB would be rather ridiculous... To be fair, they do offer other tiers, including 100G limit for $75/mo. and 300G for $155/mo. Their tiers are approx. $0.40/GB incremental over the basic rate, so you get $0.10/GB discount for "pre-purchasing" your expected usage.
If you are a 150G user every month, you could opt for the 100G plan for $75 and plan to spend $25/mo. in overages each month for a total bill of $100/mo. Pretty good for a 100M/100M connection! Even better -- if you do not reach the 150G cap, you save money in those months.
I dunno but it seems like a pretty fair pricing scheme. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
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| Here's the thing: my usage varies between maybe 75GB per month and 175 GB per month. Average usage is probably around 120GB. Now, all things considered, my bill would tend to be below $100 per month, but with MeidaCom offering an unlimited-use plan for less than that...well, you get the picture.
I don't doubt that there's a reason why the per-GB costs and overages are high like that; it isn't all that cheap bringing bandwidth out beyond large cities. However if Lisco is offering 100 Mbps service I'd think they have at least 200Mbits of committed bandwidth, and at those commits you're looking at 20¢ per GB at most...assuming people actually use their connections. Yes, the speed is awesome, but you run into the problem of being unable to use that speed due to caps.
20¢ per GB when purchased in quantity? Fine. 40-50¢? Nope. |
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155USD for 300GB and they said canada was expensive
i pay 39.99 CAD about 30$ USD for 1600GB
and the 200GB tier is 29.99 CAD
what a rip off |
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If you`re paying over 100 bucks a month, a freaking premium price, you sure as heck better not be capped on fiber. There is absolutely no reason for them to charge such an insane amount per gigabyte and institute such insanely low caps. There`s nothing logical or `ok` about it. Jeezus. |
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