On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] stated in their Email: bscott> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bscott> To: Greater NH Linux User Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> bscott> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 21:44:30 -0500 (EST) bscott> Subject: RE: High Speed Internet costs (was: Email hosting) bscott> bscott> On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, at 9:00pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bscott> > The exsiting ISP, be it Vitts, MV, Joe Blow local ISP, they should already bscott> > have ISP backbone equipment in place for their dialups. bscott> bscott> Just because a business is already in possession of something doesn't mean bscott> you can call it "free". Even if they aren't in-debt to pay it off, it has bscott> maintenance and depreciation costs. We all know how fact computers bscott> depreciate... bscott> bscott> > At the most they'll have to upgrade their pipe or get an aditional T ... bscott> bscott> "At the most"? bscott> bscott> 100 customers @ 56 kbps = 5600 kbps = 3.6 T1's bscott> 100 customers @ 768 kbps = 76800 kbps = 50 T1's bscott> bscott> Obviously, since consumer services can be oversubscribed, the math doesn't bscott> really work out like that, but you should see my point. We're talking an bscott> increase in capacity of more than 1000%! bscott>
I not sure how this applies to ATTBI (Cable) technology, which I thought brought this to the surface. I seem to remember hearing once at a MediaOne presentation that the cable companies had a huge amount of bandwidth available (TV used very little), and they actually had their hardware throttling back their customers. I also thought she said something about the main problem was upgrading the cable network (neighborhoods), but due to cable's design it was extremely easy to upgrade the central locations (heads?) as more customers signed up. If this were the truly the case, wouldn't it be true that there should be no need for any change in speeds and/or major equipment upgrades at this point? This would reflect directly on the rate increases which started this little thread. (But I must admit, I'm extremely ignorant in the realm of cable so my thinking could be totally flawed.) [... snip ...] -- "Linux: Because a PC is a terrible thing to waste." -- As seen on the 'net -- _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
