On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 12:36:37PM +1300, Mark Foster wrote:
From my point of view bandwidth is very cheap now. Of course this is coming from first connecting to the Internet when we were being charged around $600/MB ($0.60 per kilobyte) for (international) traffic. Now I'm paying, what, about $0.20 per megabyte (less in some instances) for international traffic.
My problem with this is that you pay $0.20/meg for *traffic* regardless of its target.
No, you don't, unless you've chosen Telecom as a provider. You pay one tenth for domestic traffic, last I looked at my pricing plan. Ewen's talking about TelstraNameOfTheWeek cable modems.
Bandwidth has dropped in cost, but we download more, and faster, nowadays.
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