On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 12:35 +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Michael Fox wrote: > >On 2/28/06, Craige McWhirter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> That's unusual, in my experience (not with iinet) business rates are > >> usually significantly cheaper than residential rates. > > > >Not from any ISP I have ever seen. Just look at the Internode Business > >plans compared to Home/Soho ones. > > Usually that's because a business plan is guaranteed to have a lower > contention ratio (i.e. 1:1) than the residential plans, which can be as > dense as 1:10 or 1:12.
Gah, 1:1? Assuming you're talking about the average DSL provider, business is normally more like 1:15 or something, whereas residential is more like 1:30 - obviously, depends on the provider, and how saturated their links are on average. The contention ratios for business are usually structured such that even in peak periods, you'll get optimal bandwidth/latency out of your link. At 1:1, for a 1.5mbit DSL connection you'd probably be paying around $1000/month (which are definitely available, but probably not what people are thinking of in this thread). R -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
