Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

Wed Dec 15 15:22:58 UTC 2010

On Dec 15, 2010, at 10:09 AM, ML wrote:

> 
>> According to:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast
>> "Comcast has 15.930 million high-speed internet customers"
>> 
>> 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?
>> 
>> Laurent
> 
> Assuming that I did my math right.
> 
> It's actually 1.9 cents/month/per customer.
> 
> Assuming they pay $30/meg...
> 

Assuming you understand some networks end-to-end costs without access to their data may result in suboptimal outcomes.

- Jared