On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 07:31:25PM -0500, Dean Anderson wrote:
can get my loop down from $300 to $150... when my router port is still $1800. Nice, yeah, but not what people mean when they blather about "cheap bandwidth". If it's _that_ cheap, it's running under completely different assumptions than a standard T-1; viz: cable modems.
Um, actually, I think think you can get DSLAM's for about $700 per port or less going by my recent informal surveys.
Router ports have been way overpriced for a long time. They were overpriced when an AGS sold for 30K with a stack of ethernet, serial, and an fddi port. Of course, back then the pricing model optimistically expected to sell only a few thousand. They got even more overpriced later, and now expect to sell hundreds of thousands.
Unless I'm misunderstanding you, you've misunderstood me. :-) I'm not talking about the card, I'm talking about my proportion of the amount the guy I'm buying from has to pay for _his_ uplink. Bandwidth Costs Money. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Member of the Technical Staff Buy copies of The New Hackers Dictionary. The Suncoast Freenet Give them to all your friends. Tampa Bay, Florida http://www.ccil.org/jargon/ +1 813 790 7592