From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Oct 8 15:30:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA07039 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 15:30:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from panda.hilink.com.au (panda.hilink.com.au [203.2.144.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA07012 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 15:30:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from danny@localhost) by panda.hilink.com.au (8.7.6/8.7.3) id IAA01868; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 08:29:55 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 08:29:53 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" To: Ulf Zimmermann cc: isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Question about networks In-Reply-To: <199610081936.MAA16500@Gatekeeper.Lamb.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Ulf Zimmermann wrote: > Regardless of the speed to my uplink provider, they want to charge > $100/month per class C network. Or for routing of a /19 CIDR block > they want $4000/month for it plus the charge for the IP providing. > What do you think of this ? Yurk! They are obviously trying to avoid providing access to other ISPs. If they were trying to make people use CIDR more I would have expected a charge like $100/time-unit for 1 Class C and $500/time-unit for /19. Having "month" as time-unit is outrageous. $100 per year might be reasonable, depending on their reasons. As an aside: Telstra Internet in Australia charge A$2000 (US$1600) per month for BGP4 routing updates!! Danny