On Tue, 21 Feb 2012, Gilbert Wilson wrote:
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Derek J. Balling <[email protected]> wrote:>
$10,000 add'l cost ? 1000+ attendees = $10/pp up charge
Why not just "jack" the cost of the conference fees up by $10.00 per person?
Serious question, not sarcastic in any way. I don't understand why that
wouldn't be the appropriate thing to do. Because it *seems* trivial, and that
it hasn't been done means there must be something I (and probably others) are
missing here.
If it's anything like we're dealing with, $10,000 buys you a T1. So,
to provide enough bandwidth for everyone the cost per ticket is likely
to go up $100/person or more, not $10/person.
If a hotel/conference center has the bandwidth to accomodate many
heavy users (say with a 50mb or 100mb line) I'd expect that the cost
would be even greater per mb -- they're not here to give bulk
discounts, but make you pay as much as possible to cover the
"freebies." Then, after all of that, you have to deal with QoS.
They're not going to let you just waltz in and be the network admin...
Actually, you may be able to come very close to this.
At Scale we put in our own firewall, switches, etc throughout the meeting
room floors, so our network is completely separate from the Hotel network,
up until the firewall connects to their router.
bandwidth costs vary by location, and in some locations you can't get good
bandwidth no matter what you are willing to pay, but $10K for a T-1 sounds
high.
David Lang
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