Ed Kummel <tech_ed_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>Just to put this in perspective.
>I live in Sterling Park VA. About 4 miles from AOL's
>Ashburn World Wide campus, 5 miles from WorldCom's
>worldwide campus, 3 miles from Dulles airport (I can
>hear planes preparing for take off on overcast
>nights).
>My cable company offers oneway cable. Downlink of
>500kbps, uplink at 33.6kbps. Plus it ties up the phone
>line while online and it is not an "always on"
>situation. I am 30,000+ feet from the CO, so standard
>DSL doesn't apply to me. I live in a neighborhood of
>detatched single family homes that have been here
>since 1960. (my house was built in 1959!) Adelphia
>cable says that they will have two way cable in
>October. (yeah right...I'll believe that when I see
>it) I think it will be $49/month for residential
>service (DHCP and probably PPOE) plus you have to
>purchase basic cable (an additional $39/month, I use
>satellite, so this is a charge I wouldn't be taking
>advantage of) I don't know if there ISP charges or
>not, but if so, then add an additional $15/month) So,
>with two way cable, I would be looking at over
>$100/month anyway. Sure, higher speed, but anymore
>reliable? I don't know.
>Additionally, if I wanted business rated cable
>internet, add $20/month.
>Yeah, I also looked at satellite, but that 260ms
>latency was too harsh to deal with!
>With DSL.net, I have 144kbps both ways. Always on, no
>bandwidth constraints. (last month, I was using my
>connection at home from work as a tunnel to copy over
>some files I needed to install a machine I was placing
>in the datacenter...all totaled, I had over
>100Gigabytes of data flowing through my connection (22
>days of constant data! what a trip! My router didn't
>stop blinking for a second!)
>DSL.net also gives me unlimited IPs (I currently have
>20) Unlimited mailboxes (not needed, I run my own POP
>and SMTP) and a guaranteed 99.9% uptime (I have the
>business class connectivity) I run several websites
>from two servers, Microsoft Exchange and Post.Office
>from two other servers, 4 connected workstations
>(including my Newton) and I'm colocating a computer
>from a friend (it's doing his secondary DNS...I think
>it's running Linux...never looked at it...it's not
>mine, no need to!)
>My computer room is a spare bedroom with a single rack
>housing 5 battery backup systems, two rackmount Compaq
>1500 servers (RAID 5, dual Pentium IIs, 512mb RAM),
>Compaq 1850, two home built towers. Two Dells sit in
>other rooms of the house as well as my laptop and my
>Newt. I am running a wireless ethernet and enjoy
>working from home on the back patio in my hammock!
>(now, if only I can figure out how to get power
>wirelessly!)
>DSL.net doesn't restrict my usage nor my bandwidth nor
>do they try to dictate to me what I can do with my
>bandwidth. If I want to run a Porn server, I can...If
>I want to send SPAM from my mail server, I can. They
>don't care, they only provide bandwidth...they have no
>concern over the content! I don't think that any other
>service can say that! (not that I need it mind you...)
>So, for $135/month...I think that I'm getting my value
>from it! (although, I wish it was faster...)
>Ed
>web/gadget guru
I can easily see how such a sum would be justified. I'll remember to
think before I post after this.
-James
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