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Re: More Sidgemore on per-bit pricing
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra () scfn thpl lib fl us>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 20:57:41 -0500
On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 07:31:25PM -0500, Dean Anderson wrote:
can get my loop down from $300 to $150... when my router port is still $1800. Nice, yeah, but not what people mean when they blather about "cheap bandwidth". If it's _that_ cheap, it's running under completely different assumptions than a standard T-1; viz: cable modems.Um, actually, I think think you can get DSLAM's for about $700 per port or less going by my recent informal surveys. Router ports have been way overpriced for a long time. They were overpriced when an AGS sold for 30K with a stack of ethernet, serial, and an fddi port. Of course, back then the pricing model optimistically expected to sell only a few thousand. They got even more overpriced later, and now expect to sell hundreds of thousands.
Unless I'm misunderstanding you, you've misunderstood me. :-) I'm not talking about the card, I'm talking about my proportion of the amount the guy I'm buying from has to pay for _his_ uplink. Bandwidth Costs Money. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra () baylink com Member of the Technical Staff Buy copies of The New Hackers Dictionary. The Suncoast Freenet Give them to all your friends. Tampa Bay, Florida http://www.ccil.org/jargon/ +1 813 790 7592
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