[22176] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: More Sidgemore on per-bit pricing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Stratton)
Wed Dec 9 22:40:02 1998
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 22:10:09 -0500 (EST)
From: Nathan Stratton <nathan@robotics.net>
To: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19981209184349.29223@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> 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.
I dont take it personal because I agree with you. :-)
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> Cheers,
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