23 Dec
2000
23 Dec
'00
10:33 p.m.
Hmmm . . . that's interesting, to be sure. I'm not the one who asked, BTW,
and I don't know where you are, of course, but the DSL throught Qwest here
is 19.95 for a 640Kbps albeit time-limited amount. IIRC, the charge for the
persistent session is about $10 more, so that lines up with what you're
being charged. It looks, overall that if you're paying too much at all it's
likely at the ISP, but by $5 at most. The data rate puzzles me, though,
since I get 640Kbps down and 272 up, of which the only reduction in poor
weather is the down-rate, which falls off to 512 K. Perhaps that will
change over time.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Lane" <kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2000 8:51 PM
Subject: DSL Rate
I just figured out that someone asked me how much I
was paying for my DSL
from Qwest. Forgive me, but I can't find who the original poster was.
Anyway: Base rate for the line is $29.95/mo. Round to $30.
Add to that $35/mo for Qwest.net (the ISP) to be the host. Includes web
space (which I no longer use) and mailboxes (which I won't be using much
longer).
Finally, tack on $15/mo for a private block of eight static IP's. Three
are reserved to be the network, gateway, and broadcast addresses for my
subnet (I'm subnetted off a class A block), and five are user-definable,
function-wise. Subtract one more for the router interface, and that leaves
me four usable.
Total: A little under $80/month for everything, and that includes a
guaranteed data rate of 256K down (I get 384 during rainy weather, and
512K
during dry), and 272K up.
If anyone knows of another ISP that can give me my own subnet for
$50/month or less, and equivalent bandwidth, please say so. ;-)
Hope that helps.
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Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies
http://www.bluefeathertech.com // E-mail: kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com
Amateur Radio: WD6EOS since Dec. '77 (Extra class as of June-2K)
"I'll get a life when someone demonstrates to me that it would be
superior to what I have now..." (Gym Z. Quirk, aka Taki Kogoma).