Strangely, our experience was the opposite, Hurricane Electric wanted about $500 more per month for 100 meg and a cabinet than our reseller did.
John Andy Trimmell wrote: > Resellers are a little bit more expensive actually and all of them don't have > fiber already ran. It's ridiculous the cost we pay. > > -----Original Message----- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of John Thomas > Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 9:44 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo > > We buy ours through a reseller, and they have quoted us $1000/month for > Gig at Hurricane Electric in Fremont CA. > > John > > > Mike Hammett wrote: > >> I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if GigE connections were under $1 now. >> I know a couple companies were at $1. >> >> Bandwidth pricing is the inverse of real estate pricing. Downtown Chicago, >> a sq.ft. of land could buy you hundreds of acres in Montana. A single meg >> in Montana could buy you hundreds of megs (or a couple gigs) in Chicago. >> >> >> ----- >> Mike Hammett >> Intelligent Computing Solutions >> http://www.ics-il.com >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> From: "Andy Trimmell" <atrimm...@precisionds.com> >> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 2:20 PM >> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> >> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo >> >> >> >>> 50Mbit for $450 a month isn't bad for a pipe to AT&T. We're paying 10x >>> that from AT&T right now. >>> >>> $0.90? come on give me a break. If that's possible then we should sue AT&T >>> for highway robbery. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On >>> Behalf Of Mike Hammett >>> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 1:26 PM >>> To: WISPA General List >>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo >>> >>> Did you mean $9/meg or $0.90/meg? $9/meg isn't much to write home about. >>> ;-) >>> >>> >>> ----- >>> Mike Hammett >>> Intelligent Computing Solutions >>> http://www.ics-il.com >>> >>> >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------- >>> From: "Justin Wilson" <j...@mtin.net> >>> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 11:48 AM >>> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>; "RickG" >>> <rgunder...@gmail.com> >>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo >>> >>> >>> >>>> Yup. If you are at an on-net building you can get it even cheaper. >>>> One >>>> client is buying for $9 a meg in bulk in Chicago. Their biggest hurdle >>>> are >>>> peering agreements with the big boys. The AT&t¹s of the world are sort >>>> of >>>> tolerating them at the moment until they can figure out what to do. They >>>> tried de-peering with them a few years ago and there was an outcry. Lots >>>> of >>>> web-sites are hosted on cogent bandwidth. >>>> >>>> Justin >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Justin Wilson <j...@mtin.net> >>>> CCNA CCNT Mikrotik Advanced >>>> http://www.mtin.net - Homepage >>>> http://www.mtin.net/blog - Technical Blog >>>> >>>> XISP solutions Hosting Consulting Tower Climbing >>>> >>>> >>>> From: RickG <rgunder...@gmail.com> >>>> Reply-To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org> >>>> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:33:16 -0500 >>>> To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org> >>>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo >>>> >>>> I hear $1500 for a gig! >>>> >>>> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Mike Hammett >>>> <wispawirel...@ics-il.net>wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> I wish I was a bit closer to a POP to take advantage of it, but my >>>>> Cogent >>>>> rep informed me that through the end of the month, they have a promo >>>>> going >>>>> $400/100 megabit 1 year contract. Only available at Cogent and carrier >>>>> neutral data centers. These facilities are listed on their web site >>>>> under >>>>> the network heading. A complete building list (and not eligible for >>>>> this >>>>> promo) is available in the service locator under Dedicated Internet >>>>> access. >>>>> >>>>> Not all of their host buildings allow roof access, but I believe a >>>>> significant number of them do. I encourage you to build your network >>>>> out >>>>> to >>>>> these facilities. >>>>> >>>>> Sure, someone's going to hop on here and complain about how horrible >>>>> Cogent >>>>> is, but every carrier has their good and bad spots. I'm sure I could >>>>> find >>>>> someone to honestly say the same things about AT&T, VZB, Level3, >>>>> InterNAP, >>>>> XO, MZima, etc., etc. It doesn't matter the carrier, I strongly >>>>> encourage >>>>> you to have more than one. >>>>> >>>>> Feel free to blast the list with questions about building your network >>>>> to >>>>> Cogent, routing policies to best combine Cogent and your existing >>>>> provider, >>>>> etc. These things would apply to any carrier, not just Cogent. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ----- >>>>> Mike Hammett >>>>> Intelligent Computing Solutions >>>>> http://www.ics-il.com >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> >>>> >>>>> WISPA Wants You! 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