Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

Wed Dec 15 19:13:37 UTC 2010

They can't be paying more than a couple of dollars per Mbps.

Jeff

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Justin Wilson <lists at mtin.net> wrote:
>    Ay 10 Gig levels bandwidth should be much much cheaper than $30 /Mbit.
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> From: Jon Lewis <jlewis at lewis.org>
> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:46:13 -0500 (EST)
> To: <nanog at nanog.org>
> Subject: Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style
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> On Wed, 15 Dec 2010, Laurent GUERBY wrote:
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>> If a 10G port for transit is paid by comcast $30/Mbit/s monthly
>> that's 0.19 cent/internet customer/month for a new 10G port
>> to properly desaturate this particular link.
>>
>> Did I compute something wrong?
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> At that bandwidth level, isn't $30/mbit roughly an order of magnitude
> higher than people are actually paying?
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