[9270] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Cost vs benefit of internet services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Cox @ GMU/PSOL)
Mon Dec 27 16:22:16 1993
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1993 16:21:35 -0500
To: com-priv@psi.com
From: bcox@gmu.edu (Brad Cox @ GMU/PSOL)
Cc: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein), Doug Humphrey <digex@ss1.digex.net>
>>What precisely *is* the difference in cost in providing a bottom of the
>>barrel unix shell account versus a SLIP or PPP capable account?
>
>I'm sure there's more to this story, but perhaps that gives some
>hints.
Thanks; that's a *big* help. I'd imagined that registering IP addresses
with the DNS might be involved too, but I guess the dedicated dialin modem
works around that.
No, that doesn't make sense either. Why isn't a modem pool as satisfactory
for SLIP/PPP as conventional dialup?
I'm still puzzled. There's more than an order of magnitude difference in
price. But you described only a 2-fold difference in hardware costs and a
(huge; 2x? 5x?) difference in support costs. They don't add up to 10x,
unless you claiming support alone is 10x.
