In message <9411080848.AA16753@uh.msc.edu>, Tim Salo writes:
Most ATM pricing I have seen has a "committed information rate" component, which assures a minimum available bandwidth. This is not the "metered" pricing to which you are responding.
-tjs
Tim, None of us has tried to hook up a small business or our PeeCee at home to an ATM netwpork and see if setting up and SVC to ftp.*.* at some low rate is proportional to the cost of asking for a PVC at 10s of Mb/s, for obvious reasons (no one offers it - in case anyone can't see the obvious reasons). It might end up being orders of magnitude cheaper to get some other type of connection to an IP provider below some bandwidth threshhold than an ATM connection and paying per SVC. For example, it is quite easy to exceed $1,000/mo using IP over POTs or IP over ISDN with usage sensitive billing (within the same city), while a leased circuit would be far cheaper. I have existance proof of that (both involve home use). Curtis