Not to be overly provocative here, but why are you paying $60/meg? You're a trade organization...make deals with each other, share your upstream peers, buy in bulk, and get your $60/meg to $30/meg, $20/meg, or even lower...
-Clint Ricker Kentnis Technologies On 9/10/07, George Rogato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Forrest W Christian wrote: > > we're trying to rid ourselves of exactly the same people that the cable > companies are ridding > > themselves of - those which expect a full bore pipe for less than it > > costs us to purchase the bandwidth. > > I just had a guy who wanted to sign up but wanted to define what speeds > I was going to give him and what exactly he was expecting. > He said, when I buy a 3 meg connection I expect 3 megs all the time. > > I asked him if he thought 3 megs all the time meant that when he hit the > speed test button, that it was going to come back every single time at 3 > megs or if he meant 3megs all-the-time constantly consuming bandwidth at > 3megs a second. > > He chose 3megs all-the-time constantly consuming bandwidth at 3megs a > second. > > And he wanted a public ip address and no ports blocked. > > So I asked him if he thought it was feasible for me to buy bandwidth at > $60+ per meg on a dedicated internet connection and then sell him 3x $60 > for $40.00 per month and then to boot buy him a public ip and configure > my routers to his specification. > > How long will I stay in business doing that. > > We argued a bit about bit caps and consumer broadband connection verses > dedicated business class connectivity. I kept my cool and was even keel, > the guy was getting pissed and disagreeing the deeper I got into > explaining what I was going to be providing and he was going to be > buying. Finally I sent him on his way to google and told him he should > search out comcast and bit caps and give me a call back when he thinks > he can operate on my network with my terms of service. > > The guy called back, apologized and explained he misunderstood and and > he expected to pay what he should be paying and would give me a call > back when he was ready. > > I hooked him up a couple weeks ago and we're both happy. > > He knows the rules. He even offered to pay more for his public ip. I > didn't and generally don't charge extra for ip addresses. And he knows > to be reasonable about usage. > Heck I could care less if he used 50 gigs every now and then, but not > all-the-time > > Now how to explain it to the rest of the market place is going to be the > hard thing. > > George > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ** Join us at the WISPA Reception at 6:30 PM on October the 16th 2007 at > ISPCON ** > ** ISPCON Fall 2007 - October 16-18 - San Jose, CA www.ispcon.com ** > ** THE INTERNET INDUSTRY EVENT ** > ** FREE Exhibits and Events Pass available until August 31 ** > ** Use Customer Code WSEMF7 when you register online at > http://www.ispcon.com/register.php ** > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Join us at the WISPA Reception at 6:30 PM on October the 16th 2007 at ISPCON ** ** ISPCON Fall 2007 - October 16-18 - San Jose, CA www.ispcon.com ** ** THE INTERNET INDUSTRY EVENT ** ** FREE Exhibits and Events Pass available until August 31 ** ** Use Customer Code WSEMF7 when you register online at http://www.ispcon.com/register.php ** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
