On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 08:33:16PM -0700, Roeland Meyer wrote:
Considering the cost of a DS1, in California anyways, I might disagree with you. DS1 is steep enough, DS3's are much too steep and sounds much too anti-competitive. Randy, you also know the rates the rest of the planet pays for E1's and E2's, if they can even get anything that fast. If you want a speed-bump then don't build a speed-farging-mountain.
Roeland, what are you talking about? DS1 costs are by far the lowest they have been in years, -particularly- in California. Try living in Michigan or Illinois sometime. Randy's point is that basement resellers of dedicated services in particular are typically reselling to enough people that they have larger address-space needs than a /24 and can qualify for and get their own space. The legitimate use of a microallocation is a small, but highly trafficed service that badly needs to be multihomed -- remember we started this thread with a conversation about eBay and CNN. This is not a small provider catch all. --msa