[22163] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: More Sidgemore on per-bit pricing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Wed Dec 9 19:18:00 1998
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 18:43:49 -0500
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812091028020.6451-100000@skipper.robotics.net>; from Nathan Stratton <nathan@robotics.net> on Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 10:33:44AM -0500
On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 10:33:44AM -0500, Nathan Stratton wrote:
> > Yeah... but you _STILL_ can't get that large a router port for that
> > little money, and you never will.
> >
> > Bandwidth is what costs money, not copper.
>
> I was just saying how you could lower the cost of the ADSL loop from
> around $150 to $30, with both you would need to supply the IP. The idea
> would be that you would not just use the port for internet traffice. You
> would provide voice services, you would provice VOD (video on demand), and
> cable services (using something like I Magic TV).
Oh yeah, I got that, Nathan. It's just that I get miffed when people
keep going on (don't take this personal) about how cool it is that I
can get my loop down from $300 to $150... when my router port is still
$1800. Nice, yeah, but not what people mean when they blather about
"cheap bandwidth". If it's _that_ cheap, it's running under completely
different assumptions than a standard T-1; viz: cable modems.
And now for something completely different. Anyone need a wireless T-1?
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=47936641
Cheers,
-- jr 'got a bunch of 5251 cards, too' a
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