On Mon, 22 May 2000, you wrote:
> On Mon, 22 May 2000, Ian C.Sison wrote:
> ..
> >
> > > I am aware of this, I am just trying to make things work before I finally
> > > upgrade to the corporate service. it's pretty expensive kasi to have
> > > corporate account para pang testing lang di ba :) nevertheless thanks for
> > > the reminder :)
> >
> > If you will upgrade to corporate service, you won't have to do the eth
> > gymnastics with DHCP. They give out static IP addresses, even subnets
> > if you wish, and you will be using another kind of modem (not the
> > motorola)
>
> Yeah, but Destiny's corporate service is "harang." I wrote their corporate
> guy, the charge is 30000 or 40000 a month for one IP and 64K bandwidth.
> That's the same charge as for a real leased circuit (although with the
> leased circuit you also pay the telco).
>
> Now what with Destiny's bandwidth issues I'd rather get a real leased
> circuit to a real ISP like moscom which will ensure that my 64k local
> leased circuit will always be saturated.
If i remember right, at 32K PhP you get shared 64K 4:1 leased line access to
the internet from most bandwidth providers. That excludes telco charges from
the leased line transport. If you can show me a provider who can give the
dedicated leased line access to the internet (1:1) that WOULD SATURATE a 64K
then yes, that is quite a better deal. Eg.: If mozcom offers for PhP 30K
dedicated 1:1 64K access to the internet backbone, so that i can saturate my
leased line, then you are quite right, that is a good deal.
> Furthermore, I dont see why they charge so much for corporate service (and
> throttle it to boot) while regular subscribers get nonthrottled, unlimited
> service. I mean, ZPdee has the right idea (measure the number of bytes
> they download and charge based on that). The latter is a more sustainable
> charging scheme. Destiny's scheme is simply braindead.
In a nutshell, one gets the service one pays for. Regular subscribers get non
throttled access to the internet because service is on a best efforts basis,
and the IPLs dedicated to residential subscribers do not mix with corporate
subscribers. ZPDEE also has this unlimited best efforts service as well, BTW.
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