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I'm not a robot like you. I don't like having disks crammed into me... unless they're Oreos, and then only in the mouth. -- Fry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Trent M. Davenport" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 11:14 AM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] OT - Satellite Bandwidth > OUCH!!! > > I hope you had more than our 1400 customers to help pay for that one. > > We're about 5 routers, 20 microwave hops, a few distance copper runs, and a > couple fibre hops to the backbone. Our connection to the backbone is 1400 > miles away. > > Trent > ----------- > Trent M. Davenport - Systems Administrator > Northern Television Systems Ltd - WHTV > 203-4103 4th Avenue, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 1H6 > (867) 393-2225 X204, (867) 393-2224 FAX > www.whtvcable.com <http://www.whtvcable.com> ( > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Craig Gittens > Sent: November 9, 2001 10:20 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] OT - Satellite Bandwidth > > > That is not so ridiculous. Try Verestar. We used to use Interpacket(Verestar > bought it) and they were US$6000 per MBit per month simplex. We were paying > for 6MB every month. > > Plus US$20,000 for a terrestrial T1 from Cable & Wireless here which is > about 12 routers away from the backbone. > > Craig. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Trent M. > Davenport > Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 12:41 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] OT - Satellite Bandwidth > > > They track all our total bytes transferred, divide it by the number of days, > divide it down to number of bytes/sec then convert it to bits to give us our > monthly Mbit/sec/month > > Got our reports. In October we transferred 1.85TBytes of data that if you > calculate it down gives 5.5Mbit/sec and our terrestrial rate is CDN > $12,500.00 for the first 2Mbit and CDN $3,000.00 for each Mbit or part > thereof for the ones over 2Mbit. Therefore we paid for 6Mbit. $12,500.00 + > 4 X $3000.00 = $24,500.00 for our bandwidth in October > > Trent > ----------- > Trent M. Davenport - Systems Administrator > Northern Television Systems Ltd - WHTV > 203-4103 4th Avenue, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 1H6 > (867) 393-2225 X204, (867) 393-2224 FAX > www.whtvcable.com <http://www.whtvcable.com> ( > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Craig Gittens > Sent: November 9, 2001 5:47 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] OT - Satellite Bandwidth > > > Ok I am not sure I understand. Are you saying they charge you per MBit per > month. Or do they count up how much data you transfer per month and charge > you on that? > > > Craig. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rod Dorman > Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 7:27 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] OT - Satellite Bandwidth > > > Trent M. Davenport wrote: > > Haven't been off topic yet, so here's my go. > > > > Last month we used 1.4TBytes (1400GBytes) of Internet bandwidth and it's > > costing us a fortune. Anyone out there know of a reasonably priced > > satellite bandwidth company that will cost us less than $3000.00 CDN per > > Mbit. > > Are you saying they're charging you in the neighborhood of $375 per > megabyte? > > Here's a great incentive for no HTML in email. > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The avalanche has already started, it is too > Rod Dorman late for the pebbles to vote." - Ambassador Kosh > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
