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Re: Double Dipping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charley Kline)
Wed Sep 14 13:18:49 1994
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 12:00:09 -0500
To: Resnet <resnet-forum@MIT.EDU>
From: kline@uiuc.edu (Charley Kline)
At 10:50 AM 9/14/94, Philip Nelson wrote:
>How can you compare a modem connection to an ethernet connection at the
>same value? We currently offer free modem access also and are considering
>adding slip access as well. Our dorms are wired for 10bT and all
>discussions about activating them have been with the assumption that those
>activated rooms would carry a surcharge. It is more expensive to provide
>10bT and provides much better access so why not have those recieving the
>"better than standard free service" pay extra?
Boy, this sure hasn't been our experience. A modem port here goes for
$19.50 per month per line plus $450 for the modem (high, but we use USR
total control modems since we need good management) plus about $120 per
port on the Cisco ASM/4 terminal server.
I think our per-port cost for our dorm networks were down in the $250 per
port range, and that's for EXPENSIVE repeaters since we have rather
complicated automatic address assignment and management requirements.
/cvk
