Peter van Hout wrote:
Folk have to realise, and I've said it before; someone, somewhere up the line has to pay.I have been advised by Actrix that from the 1/1/2003 their charge for JetStart will go up to over $140.00 per month!!!!!! Seems that they do not want me as a user.I seems to remember others talking about Cost Effective ISPs with JetStart...Who were they please
I'm getting really pissed with Radionet since Compass bought them out, bad support, lousy service... was a 1Mbps burstable connection when I first got it, the cost was $299 + for 1.5GB, minimum bandwidth was 600kbps
Now the guaranteed minimum is only 250kbps and I can't remember when it bursted over 300kbps... Prices unchanged.
Best price I could get that would fit my service requirements was for $1200 + per month, with a total consumption of 6GB. Do the math.
After much trolling it seems to me that a fair recovery cost price is around 10 to 15 cents per Meg, combine national/international.
Most of the third-party ISP's got into Jetstart because they were actually supplying the bandwith from that which they had agreed to purchase, even selling it at a tenth the cost was better than nothing, now if they have to buy extra bandwidth to cover requirements...?
The best I can look at now is a 5GB Jetsream plan through Xtra with a fixed IP and just HOPE that they will agree to advertise routes and import my own /24 - that will still cost me around $720 a month :<
The good days may be a thing of the past...
Adrian
