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Why Are T1 Lines Still Expensive?
badfrog asks: "Over the last 10 years, DSL and cable modem has upped its speed (although in some instances only slightly) and dropped its price. However, the price of a T1 has stayed almost exactly the same. If you had asked me 10 years ago, I would have predicted any geek that wanted to would have fiber or their own T1 line to the house by now. What is with this sad state of affairs that a 'business class' 1.544Mbit connection is hundreds of dollars more than a 6Mbit cable connection? Is it a legitimate case that a high upload rate should increase cost so significantly?"
"I heared that in Italy you can get a T1 for cheap, but I'm sure it comes with no guarantee."
"I wanted to go to Cambodia. You can get a lobster dinner for a dollar."
Wow, Tubes, in a conversation about internet bandwidth, in a way that is completely unlike the stupid lame slashdot joke..
If I had mod points, I'd give them to you!
What are we going to do tonight Brain?
From the "I'd rather post to /. and have the editors post this topic than enter it in google" dept:
i ve
http://www.google.com/search?q=why+are+t1s+expens
First 10hits are questions on "Why is a T1 more expensive than DSL?"
Must be a slow news day.
(i know this is a troll but, "ask slashdot" questions should not be answered with the FIRST TEN hits in a google search).
A man was complaining about his life to his clergyman.
"I was a hard-working clerk making $30,000 per year. I was frugal, living carefully, saving my money, and I was happy and content.
Then one day I fell in with some shady characters and I got suckered into a high-stakes poker game. That was my ruin. Now I am anxious, stressed, and miserable."
His friend says "So you fell into temptation and lost all your savings?"
"No, I won, and like a fool I bought this lousy Wireless internet company."
Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, religion destroys spirituality
No, he just compared a T1 line to a lobster dinner.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong fix.
Either that was a typo or you have no right to complain in my book.
not a typo. I'm complaining because we got a letter that said we now get 15mbit down, when in reality I'm still seeing 8mbit speeds. if I read online that we should have 15mbit, but I wasn't told that, it wouldn't' be such a big deal...
Just yesterday my roomate got a notice that he was overusing the campus network - 108 GB in one week. It's hanging on our door now.
oh man, I should post some stats that the netadmin at my school sent me when I was there. They threatened to shut us down and kick us out of the dorms if we kept it up. This is in 99/00, before napster got popular and downloaded movies took 2 full CDs and were mpeg format. my roommate and I both had a 2x burner and I had a 4GB and a 6GB drive in my computer, while he had 2 10GB drives. we were downloading faster than we could burn and by the end of the year we had a collection of over 300 movies.
In the email the netAdmin sent us, we were using the full dorm bandwidth (1MB/sec) sustained, both ways for 14 days straight with only the occasional break (when looking at the graphs, it was the times we ran out to get CDRs or we had to run around to other students and ask to borrow HD space in exchange for a copy of a movie).
THOSE were the days. you kids and your torrent files and your 500GB drives. Hell, I remember when you had to really SEARCH to find a server that had a decent selection AND gave you decent transfer speeds.
...spike
Ewwwwww, coconut...
Nietzsche, of course. "802.11g is dead."