Tier 1 is fairly meaningless.  In many cases, tier 2 bandwidth is better 
quality than tier 1.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_1_network though I'm not sure how current 
that is.


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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com



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From: "Matt" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 10:20 AM
To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Net Neutrality

>> Yup. We pay almost 800 bucks for 20/20 meg. To not do any shaping we 
>> would
>
> Thats cheap compared to what we pay!  You are paying about $40 a meg.
> Is that tier1 bandwidth?  We are paying about $100 meg for tier1.
>
> Matt
>
>> have to charge way more than anyone will pay. Take the 800 bucks split by
>> 20 then add overhead costs and it's too much to bear. Bandwidth that will
>> handle 500+ customers with shaping would then, if totally net neutral, 
>> only
>> go to 20 customers or less. To be true net neutral is just to pass all 
>> the
>> traffic through with no touching it. Reasonable network management, as 
>> Josh
>> says, is pretty broad in definition.
>
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