Comcast/etc....
mike neuliep
mike at marauder.illiana.net
Sun Jan 27 14:58:46 CST 2002
Brad,
The ISP co-op that I use for kclug, http://www.ispfh.org uses a metered
bandwidth pricing structure. It is about 80 cents per Kbit of guaranteed
bandwidth. This model has worked out real well for me since I know
exactly what I'm getting and exactly what I'm paying and there is no
questioning of my usage patterns.
Mike
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On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Bradley Miller wrote:
> >Imagine cable companies offering digital cable channels and faster
> broadband at competitive prices. ;-)
>
>
> Herein lies the rub for all these types of things. Bandwidth costs money.
> Right now I have 10+ PC's all on my DSL for my home office. I pay a
> higher premium for my DSL service (but not as expensive as SWBell would
> charge) to have my service. At most, my wife might be surfing while I am
> working and perhaps down the road my son will be online also. Big deal.
> Are the cable companies really that worried about that type of traffic . .
> . probably not in all honesty. It's when we all start to decided to snag
> the latest MP3's, movie trailers or whatever from the net that things get a
> little hairy for bandwidth.
>
> How would you deal with it from a business perspective? Each month you
> get ?? cable channels or dish channels and you probably don't watch more
> than one at a time . . . yet you pay for the option of doing that.
> Unfortunately bandwidth isn't fixed quite like that . . . but what if it
> was? What if they metered your speed. You want more speed, you pay more.
> Do you think $40/month is reasonable for the typical bandwidth a home
> could suck down? Now picture something as simple as a subdivision in
> terms of bandwidth. Look at any typical MRTG graph and you'll see exactly
> why companies have to look at what they're doing. Do you put in enough
> bandwidth everywhere to handle that crush? How many ISP's have made money
> by having a 1:1 dial up ratio?
>
> Personally, I think they should have metered bandwidth with pricepoints for
> different levels of data connections. I'm not saying have a
> "20gig/$50/month" limit, more like a window for download speeds. If you
> have one PC, do you need more than 400K/sec? A tiered pricing structure
> would give people the best of both worlds.
>
> What about metered pricing though? Every other commodity is priced that
> way. We buy a gallon of gas, get water based on so many thousand gallons
> and electriciy is by the kilowatt/hour. Why not bandwidth? Would your
> download habits change? If the price was right I could see a minimum
> connect charge (say $15/month) and then a $??/gig transfer fee. Will
> people yell? Yes -- they are to used to the "give me all I can get"
> mentality. The Internet "metality" is free, but somewhere along the line
> someone forgot to mention that the infrastructure has to be paid for
> somehow. We'd all love a 6 lane highway from KC to St. Louis, but once we
> realize who's paying for it . . .
>
> The new 3G wireless phones are on the brink of coming out -- but how do you
> price them? Do you think they're honestly going to let someone tie a cell
> and bandwidth to be "Mr. MP3 Jukebox" for 1/2 the country?
>
> -- Bradley Miller
>
>
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