Quoting Marc A. Ohmann (marc at ds6.net): > I was recently pricing out DS1 and DS3 links from Onvoy, Sprint, and Qwest and > I was shocked at the prices. DS3s may be 30x faster than DS1s but they are > also 30x the price! $30k - 35k/mo! I always thought that links got cheaper > per bandwidth as they went up. So if its $35k / mo for 45Mbps how can > kernel.org, slackware.com, ... afford to have dedicated 100 and 155Mbps links > when they're non-profit. If prices remain linear someones paying $100-150k / > mo! Who's footin' the bill? Now you know why so many CLEC and Broadband providers went out of business. The way most ISPs make money is volume. -- Minneapolis St. Paul Twin Cities MN | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.mn-linux.org Minnesota Linux | Fax : (952)943-8500 Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9