I hope you're charging your customers a lot to hookup.

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----- 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.
>
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