From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Sep 10 11:23:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA03570 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 11:23:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.think.com (Mail1.Think.COM [131.239.33.245]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA03482 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 11:21:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Early-Bird.Think.COM (Early-Bird-1.Think.COM [131.239.146.105]) by mail.think.com (8.7.5/m3) with ESMTP id OAA19305; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 14:21:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from compound.Think.COM (fergus-27.dialup.prtel.com [206.10.99.158]) by Early-Bird.Think.COM (8.7.5/e1) with ESMTP id OAA18321; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 14:21:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from alk@localhost) by compound.Think.COM (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA06897; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 13:21:14 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 13:21:14 -0500 (CDT) From: Tony Kimball Message-Id: <199609101821.NAA06897@compound.Think.COM> To: marpat@kmtnet.com Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, linuxisp@lightning.com Subject: T1 offc. resell config References: <199607121936.PAA14518@etinc.com> Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Quoth Mark Patterson on Tue, 10 September: : : What equip. do i use to break up our T1 into resellable portions for : potential clients ranging in need from 56kb - 128kb and above? The cheapest thing for you to do is to sell ethernet drops. Moreover, it is very desirable from your client's perspective because they do not need a sync or isdn router, and they can take advantage of surplus available bandwidth. What you sell is not a fixed increment, but either a guaranteed minimum available bandwidth (using a bandwidth limiting router) or a statistical guarantee. In this way you can charge a premium price (due to superiority of service) while incurring lesser infrastructural costs than competing services.