I don't blame folks for lamenting the sad state of internet in Santa Fe, nor in the rest of the USA. On the other hand, down here in Ecuador, I'd be ecstatic to get 5mbps down for under $100. I understand that given a connection to fiber, the unshared bandwidth itself costs $120 mbps/month. The small ISP that I get my connection through buys 17 mb/s per month via fiber and divides it up among roughly 80 customers, capped at about 2 mb/s each. If everyone is maxing out their connection (worst case), they get 17/80 mbps, or about 250 kbps. It's usually better than that, but it often is that bad. The ISP pays $120*17=$2040 per month for the raw bandwidth, and if each of his clients pays their $35 every month, he makes roughly $800 for the month (but then, there are a lot of deadbeats). Good thing he also has a cybercafe, keeps bees and sells honey...
On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Barry MacKichan < barry.mackic...@mackichan.com> wrote: > What I remember is what is on their web site: $89 for home, $139 for > business. The $50 was mentioned as the difference. It sounds like I had the > highest download speed in the group currently, 80mb/s, but still I am > willing to commit to switching to Ting. In fact, I’d commit to the business > rate. It would give me 12 times the download speed and 58 times the upload > speed, but mostly it would give us much more reliable service. > > --Barry >
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