what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years?

Wed May 11 19:17:12 UTC 2005

Matt Bazan wrote:
> why in the world would anyone want to purchase dsl from a private
> reseller when i can get 4mb down 384 up from comcast for $25?  think you
> dsl resellers out there are doomed.  in fact, just a matter of time
> before most of you isps are down the toilet.  im reminded of the mom and
> pop grocery store phenomenon that has now been replaced by the kohls,
> a&p, whole foods etc.  of course there will always be niche markets but
> this is less applicable for a pure commodity like bandwidth.  yeah, i
> suppose you'll say something about value added services and such and you
> may have a point but i doubt that will keep the ship afloat for long.
> 
> 
If/When the internet splits into the bad neighborhood/good neighborhood 
and-never-the-twain-shall-meet, there are strong odds that the 
comcasts,sbc, and all mass providers to clueless users will not be on 
the clean side of the breakup.

Either that or their costs will go up. Or everyone elses will go down.

How about refer to the constant threads which always touch upon the 
differentation to be made for these market model targets.

pure transit
managed transit
pur access
managed access
residential <---- comcast is here.
managed residential

There are hundereds of things you can call up small dsl providers and 
ask for. Assuming clue and enable, they can generally give you if not 
what you want, then what you need.

For example:

Try calling up sbc and getting urpf turned off for a specific prefix and 
having them do IGP default announcements so that when their dsl goes 
down you will prefer a different link automatically.

How many large market pppoe providers support ppp multilink?

Its hardly a foregone conclusion. As it stands, the largest cause of 
broadband market aggregation is the erosion of "fair access" provisions 
and a sleeping(drunk?)-at-the-wheel FCC.

Joe