I guess I still forget that not everyone is on 95th percentile billing -Charles
-----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of George Rogato Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 11:26 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Cost of bandwidth Agreed we have a tad more than a 1000 wireless subs and we hit our cap nightly @ 30megs. And I try like hell to avoid the power users. J. Vogel wrote: > Charles, > > I would love to live in the world you describe here..... :) > > Bandwidth cost dwarfs credit card processing cost where I live. It also > seems very optimistic to put 1000 customers on a 20mb link. At best, I > would think that if they are consuming ~20mbps, that you should have at > least twice that in capacity, so that means a full DS3, and the best > pricing I have gotten on a DS3 is in excess of $6k (and getting to that > requires a 25 mile wireless hop). In many areas of the country, > $300-400/mbps is the rule for Nx/T1s. > > John > > Charles Wu wrote: >> Hi Hal, >> >> In the grand scheme of things...bandwidth / port costs are a minute fraction >> of an ISP/WISPs operating expenses (heck, I find that for a residential >> WISP...the credit card processing bill can be higher than the bandwidth bill) >> >> That said, look at it this way >> >> Based on our studies/trending...1,000 residential subscribers consume ~20 Mb >> of bandwidth >> >> So...1,000 customers @ $40 / month = $40k / month in revenue >> If you're getting "hosed" and paying $200 / Mb, that's still only $4k / month >> >> Now...say there's a datacenter 40 miles away that has bandwidth for $50 / Mb >> -- that's a total of $3k / month in savings >> >> >> > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ This message is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for delivery of the message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by telephone at 630-344-1586. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
