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. If the price was more proportionally set based on domestic traffic charges (being a lot less than 20c/meg im guessing?) Id be happier with the way JS is charged. So as much as prices have dropped, theyre still expensive from an end users perspective. I got DDoS'd a month or two ago, my bill went from an average of $120/month to nearly $400 that month. Thats a disturbingly high proportion of my income for a month. Bandwidth has dropped in cost, but we download more, and faster, nowadays. Mark. - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog