[12618] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: The CMU Internet Billing Service
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Tue May 24 17:29:59 1994
Date: Tue, 24 May 94 09:02 EDT
From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
To: comp.org.eff.talk.usenet@decwrl.dec.com,
alt.politics.datahighway.usenet@decwrl.dec.com,
alt.internet.services.usenet@decwrl.dec.com, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <199405232141.AA05514@access3.digex.net> (message from Paul Robinson on Mon, 23 May 1994 17:41:57 -0400)
Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 17:41:57 -0400
From: Paul Robinson <tdarcos@access.digex.net>
They do. You pay by the size of the pipe. A 14.4K baud permanent slip
connection is about 1/2 the cost of a 56K. And a T1 is about twice that.
There is no reason other than fattening the bank account of a
communications company by thinning mine to institute metering by volume.
Some vendors treat Internet connections like a statistical
multiplexor, and some treat it like a bit pipe. The ones that treat
it like a stat mux are finding that the WWW breaks their statistics,
and so want to charge for bandwidth. The ones that sell bit pipes
have no problems with the WWW (Hi, John!).
-russ <nelson@crynwr.com> ftp.msen.com:pub/vendor/crynwr/crynwr.wav
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