From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Sep 1 16:30:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from magicnet.magicnet.net (magicnet.magicnet.net [204.96.116.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83AC914EDF for ; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 16:30:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@bilver.magicnet.net) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by magicnet.magicnet.net (8.8.6/8.8.8) with UUCP id TAA13076 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 19:27:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from bill@localhost) by bilver.magicnet.net (8.9.2/8.9.1) id TAA05187 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 19:04:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Vermillion Message-Id: <199909012304.TAA05187@bilver.magicnet.net> Subject: Re: Sprint vs Quest In-Reply-To: from john at "Sep 1, 1999 03:43:43 pm" To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 19:02:54 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org john recently said: > This isn't exactly proprietary information, but i've seen > people paying as much as 1500 to 2000 a month for a 128kilobit > connection. I have gotten quotes from Sprint for T1's that were > over 3000 a month (!). Thats *excluding* loop charges from local > telco. The cheapest Sprint T1 i've seen was for like 1750.. again, > excluding local loop charges. That's a bit pricey. I work with a niche market ISP - no dialups at all - and they've found that you can go shopping for local connectivity if you are in a large enough metro area. We got a quote for local transport on a DS3 - full 45Mbit - for just about $2K. That's a damn cheap pipe. Filling it does cost more. We try to own and have billed to us - as many pieces of our pipeline as possibly - so we can get directly to the transport provider without have to call the service provider and have them call the tranport provider. Bill -- bv@wjv.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message