I agree. I had a gamer come to me the other day wanting a guarantee that his games would work on our system. heh
Told him that if it's really that much money on the line (he said he had up to $25k per month riding on his gaming) he should buy a t-1 from the telco! Never heard from him again. grin laters marlon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scottie Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 9:10 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Metered Broadband >I am not sure what the costs should or will be? But...I will say that is >where I think broadband will be headed, for sure, if the FCC keeps going >the way they are headed(since the Comcast deal) with the completely "open" >concept, such as no bandwidth shaping of any sort. > > Even the BIG players such as the major cable companies and the major > telcos cannot operate their networks very long with the new bandwidth > intensive apps coming along(unless its on their own network) with no > bandwidth shaping. > > IMHO, I think this is how it should be, a cost per data transfer or a > limit and then overage charges, just as electric, long distance, water > usage, etc... have been for a long time. > > My 2 pence worth. > > Scott > > ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- > From: "Mike Hammett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: WISPA General List <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:23:58 -0500 > >>So what types of rates would be appropriate for a metered broadband >>service? It obviously depends on what your costs are. I'll just throw >>something out to start a conversation, not necessarily reflective of any >>costs. >> >>$2/gig transferred, no other costs or limits. >> >>$10 base, $1.50/gig transferred, no other limits. >> >> >>---------- >>Mike Hammett >>Intelligent Computing Solutions >>http://www.ics-il.com >> >> >> >>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>WISPA Wants You! Join today! >>http://signup.wispa.org/ >>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >> >>Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >>http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >>Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >>--- >>[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] >> >> > > Dial-Up Internet service from Info-Ed, Inc. as low as $9.99/mth. > Check out www.info-ed.com for information. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
