Re: Mirror list
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, lordSauron wrote:
On 10/31/05, mike <mike503@gmail.com> wrote:
it's pretty off-topic but i don't think that HE's bandwidth will suit
their needs. they need proper frame relay, not bandwidth from a colo
provider on steroids.
Perhaps. But nonetheless, HE does offer some of the best bandwidth
avaliable. I've looked into frame relay, and I haven't seen it go
that fast compared to HE's GIG-E. Can you imagine *gigabit* ethernet
- to the Internet!!!
I have more than that. A snapshot of our university uplink at the ubuntu
"breezy" release:
http://stats.sunet.se/stat-q/plot-all/umea2.umea-srp,2005-10-13,raw,traffic-kbit
There is nothing magic about multi-gigabit pipes. It just costs a fair
chunk of money.
HE's a very professional company and I'm
absolutely positive they'd allow multiple lines into the same building
- for a price, of course. I know <censored> Comcast wouldn't do that
unless you paid them well more than you're able to!
Furthermore, $120,000.00/year is far too much for Internet, no matter
how fast. I think that it's time to do some research as to better
options, since that's far too expensive sounding. I just wish Verizon
were in my area - I'd LOVE to get their new FIOS service! With them I
could actually host something (yay!). But noooooooooooooooooooooo,
Comcast maintains an unfair stranglehold monopoly on my area....
You seem to have a very limited ISP experience. I would suggest that you
take a wider look at reality before going off stating such things as
certain.
And no, you don't have a stronghold monopoly from comcast if you are
willing to spend the cash to put down a fiber of your own to a real isp.
This is what you do if you are a university.
Whatever, I'm raving. And no, HE is more than a colo company on
steriods (though probably not far from it!)
SLAs cost more than bits too, btw. As does redundancy. And routers.
I have 100Mbit/s at home, at a very resonable price. But the same capacity
for a company would be much more expensive, due to less oversubscribing
and higher availability demands.
/Mattias Wadenstein
PS. Could you please stop responding to every piece of spam. It just
doubles the annoyance and noise mailflow.
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