At 01:10 PM 4/21/99 -0400, Reid Fishler wrote:

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At 12:58 PM 4/21/99 -0400, Jim Mercer wrote:

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i was looking at connecting to NYIIX, however, i find that Telehouse is sharging $400/month just to jack into their switch.

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2) $400 a month for a port where a decent amount of traffic is traded and where the switch is well maintained is not rediculous.

really. $400/month is trivial compared to what Worldcom charges to connect to the FDDI ring in "MAE-NY" (111 8th Street), and there are only two peers on that ring, only one of which (ICI/Digex) is worth anything.

my expectations are not that of a MAE, nor FDDI. i'm looking to share news, web cache, ftp/http archives, etc. 10baseT should be adequate. -- [ Jim Mercer Reptilian Research jim@reptiles.org +1 416 410-5633 ] [ The telephone, for those of you who have forgotten, was a commonly used ] [ communications technology in the days before electronic mail. ] [ They're still easy to find in most large cities. -- Nathaniel Borenstein ]