On Mar 6, 2007, at 4:51 PM, Jason Arnaute wrote:
I am currently hosted in a small, independent datacenter that has 4 or 5 public peers (L3, Sprint, UUnet, AT&T and ... ?)
Those are not public peers, those are transit providers.
They are a very nice facility, very technical and professional, and have real people on-site 24 hours per day ... remote hands, etc. All very high end and well managed.
But, I am charged between $150 and $180 per megabit/s for non-redundant, single-homed bandwidth (not sure which provider they put it on) and even if I commit to 20 or 30 megabits/s it still only drops down to $100 - $120 per megabit/s.
That is not single-homed bandwidth. You listed 4 transit providers yourself, so they obviously have more than a single path to the Internet.
So naturally, I am very interested when I see HE.NET offering bandwidth for $20/mb/s, and it looks like Level3 is selling for $30/mb/s...
Have you checked on volume. L3 will not give you $30/Mbps for one megabit. How much are you buying now?
Are there two classes of bandwidth in the world ? Is it reasonable and expected that single homed public peered bandwidth is, circa Jan 2007, going for above $100/mb/s while private peered bandwidth like L3 and HE.NET is $30 and below ?
"Private peered bandwidth"? That is a new term I've never heard. What makes you think L3 & HE are different from the place selling you transit now? Care to define your terms?
Or am I just getting ripped off ?
Entirely possible. -- TTFN, patrick