On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Stan Barber wrote:
Perhaps the costs have changed and noone has told me, but the $2000/month for MAE-HOUSTON includes a 10Mb/sec local loop if you are on the MFS network in Houston (more than 140 buildings, I believe). As far as I know, most of the participants (and I note that NOL is not one of them) are not hooked to anything faster than a 10Mb/sec connection and none of them are co-locating at the MAE just for the purpose of connecting to it.
You miss my point, I know of a fair number of local ISP's that would love to connect at MAE-Houston for the interconnects alone if the costs were within reason. The $2000/month I mentioned is your 10mb line to the nap, that however doesn't get you connected, thats just your loop cost, and for a small fry like me.. thats too damn much, way to damn much. [-] Brett L. Hawn (blh @ nol dot net) [-] [-] Networks On-Line - Houston, Texas [-] [-] 713-467-7100 [-]