Cost of real bandwidth in large amounts has been dropping like a rock.
You can get Transit (ie default route) for less than $15/mbit, sometimes
as low as $8-10/mbit if you are in a good location.
I know of several places I can get a full Gigabit Ethernet link,
expecting to run it at 95% capacity for less than $13K/month.
As long as you can over subscribe cable and DSL networks 7-10x the
networks will be able to support this. Also for every 2x increase in
"speed" with a cable modem, the provider DOES NOT have a 2x increase in
utilization.
Harry
On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 16:40 -0500, warpmedia wrote:
> Same issue here last spring with my Motorola SB 4100, should have been
> able to do 4,6,8Mb no sweat but they just could/would not put the time
> into getting the configs to work.
>
> 15Mb is awe inspiring, 8Mb is already ~1MB/sec and only $10/mo more than
> 6 here which is double what we were getting for ~8 years. I hear 30+ in
> the next few years though I wonder how they will get the gateway
> bandwidth to match, which funny enough was the crux of small ISP's
> arguments about the cost of T1 vs. DSL in 1998.
>
> Amazing, like the cost of cell phone air time in 1985 vs 2005.
>
> Pat Robertson wrote:
> >
> > On a side note - those with cable modems should make sure you have
> > something recent. I thought all DOCIS2 were the same until I replaced my
> > RCA freebie from Cox with a motorola 5000 series surfboard. My download
> > speeds jumped x5. My downstream is over 15Mb/s with 2.5Mb up. Cox is
> > litterally giving away fractional T3 speeds for pennies.
> >
> >
> >
