On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 02:54:54AM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote: > At 2:13 pm, Thursday, October 18 2001, David Fitch mumbled: > > so that's an average of 13Gb per month. > > no chance, but let me know if you do find one! > > have a look at ihug (or a reseller) satellite, at least the > > extra per Mb rates are much better than anywhere else > > (although unfortunately it's still a modem backchannel). > > > 13Gb? On ihug satalite? Okay, let's see.
13Gb at ave 5c/Mb is better than 13Gb at 20c/Mb (telstra BP direct rates) > You get 2Gb free, which gives 11Gb left to pay for, and an average of 5 > cents a Mb.. for an extra $15pm you get an extra 2Gb > steven@broken:~$ echo 'scale=2;((11*1024)*5)/100' | bc > 563.20 > > And then we find out how much the extra hours will cost. (You're charged > $1.65 for every hour over 300) that's going on an ihug plan. The resellers seem to be able to do a perm connection for the same or less, I guess it's cos they don't include the modem dialin (the sat is always on anyway it's just the modem dialin that ihug limit). > steven@broken:~$ echo 'scale=2;((168*4)-300)*1.65' | bc > 613.80 > > Add $60 for the monthly fee, and you've got yourself a $1,237 invoice from > ihug, for one month. you could get it down to approx half that but still... > Phillipus, keep dreaming, you have absolutely no hope at all in the next > year to get the kind of access you want for $90 a month. agreed (except for optus cable maybe). Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
