21 Apr
2001
21 Apr
'01
11:52 a.m.
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 09:52:15PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote:
providing me with news, since they need to get news to their news server. But if they charged me the full cost of 14Mbps, we simply wouldn't get a newsfeed from them, and they would have lost that business.
So you'd get your newsfeed from somebody else, transfer it across the WAN, and get charged for it anyway.
Hardly. We would have obtained our news feed from someone else who has a news server at a facility where we already colocate a router. But having this provider offer us a newsfeed at a fair price allowed us to save a cross-connect fee. DS