Matt Liotta wrote:
You are correct that doing radio hops to the closest major market is a
good way to go, but in your case the mileage is just too high. How far
away are you from Microserve, which is in Idaho. I believe they serve
Boise, which probably has cheaper bandwidth.
Knowing what I know about the territory out here is that when Microserv
said (paraphrasing) "200 miles is the cheap bandwidth", they probably
mean Salt Lake City. It's 200 miles from us to him, and just guessing,
there would probably be around 8-10 hops to get to him, if we got the
*right* sites. At easily $200/month per site - since these are prime
sites, this adds $2K of backhaul just go get to Idaho Falls. Then you
have to add the 10 hops @20K/hop worth of radios (200K), and pay for
them over 36 months (~6K/month), so doing this you end up paying
8K/month for loop, which on a OC3 would equate to $51/meg of loop
costs. That's more than I'm paying for bits delivered *here*.
The point I was making is that $20/meg isn't available to everyone.
Loops are still the expensive part of the whole thing. $50-75 seems to
be the sweet spot for modestly populated "rural" areas, whether that's
Helena, MT, or Idaho Falls, ID, or Florence, OR. And I would venture
that you *should* be able to find $75/meg bandwidth within a couple of
radio hops from about anywhere in the country (note I said *about*).
-forrest
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