I was at Walmart this last week and Virgin Mobile has a wireless internet plan (plus wireless device cost - USB plugin or wireless hotspot) for $40 per month unlimited data (supposidly).
They ride on a subset of Sprints network I believe. I was looking since I will need such service this summer. Dave On 3/12/2011 3:17 AM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: > 2011/3/11 Kirk Wallace<[email protected]>: > >> I'm not sure how typical my situation is, but it costs me about $20 to >> download 1GB of data, so it's not exactly cheap to download the latest >> EMC2. I wonder if there would be a demand for EMC2 on some sort of flash >> media? How cheap could it be? >> > Wow, I am surprised. Are there no places with public internet access > (something like free Wifi in the local town, library etc) in US? > I think that it would be faster to go somewhere, download it rather > than ordering a flash media with EMC2. > And if the idea is to get flash with the latest EMC2 version, then I > think this idea sucks - new version is released so often that flashes > with a particular EMC2 version would need to be created in pretty > small amounts which by definition cannot be cheap (one can change the > version of EMC on the flash, before dispatching it, but it would > require time and thus increase cost anyway). > BTW EMC2 deb package weights something close to 30-40MB, which would > cost You less than 1$. Save that deb package on the usb flash and next > time You will need to redownload it only when newer version is > released. > If You want to get source code, it weights about the same "amount of > MB". And if I understand correctly, than later synchronizing Your > source code with the repository would include downloading only the > changes in the code, which would be pretty small amount of MB and even > smaller amount in $. > > And what kind of internet connection is that - 20USD/1GB? Here, in > Latvia I have mobile broadband connection ~14$ for 10GB traffic and > ~40$ for unlimited traffic (they limit DL speed, once above 10 or 15 > GB limit). I have never used more than 7-8 GB of my traffic, and I am > browsing the web, running Ubuntu updates and downloading some stuff, > like EMC source code and similar. Forget about movies etc in torrents, > of course :) > > Viesturs > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Colocation vs. Managed Hosting > A question and answer guide to determining the best fit > for your organization - today and in the future. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
