Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

Tue May 29 13:23:40 UTC 2018

On 05/28/2018 06:13 PM, Matthew Petach wrote:
> Your 200mbit/sec link that costs you $300 in hardware
> is going to cost you $4960/month to actually get IP traffic
> across, in Nairobi.   Yes, that's about $60,000/year.
I live in the US of A, and this is what 200Mb/s roughly would cost me as 
well here in Rural Monopoly-land.  Rural ILEC also has the CATV 
business, and, well, they are _not_ going to run cable up here.  I've 
actually priced 150Mb/s bandwidth from the ILEC over the years; in 2003 
the cost would have been about $100,000 per month. As of five years ago 
10Mb/s symmetrical cost roughly $1,000 per month, the lion's share of 
that being per-mile NECA Tariff 5 transport costs.

The terrain here prevents fixed wireless.  The terrain also prevents 
satellite comms to the Clarke belt (mountain to the south with trees on 
US Forest Service property in the line of sight).  I get 1XRTT in one 
room of my house when the humidity is below 70% and it's winter, and 
once in a blue moon 3G will light up, but it's not stable enough to 
actually use; it's the speed of dialup.  If I traipse about a hundred 
yards up the mountain to the south (onto US Forest Service property, so, 
no repeater for me) I can get semi-usable 4G; nothing like being in the 
middle of the woods with an active black bear population trying to get a 
usable signal.

I'm paying $50 per month for 7/0.5 DSL (I might add that they provide 
excellent DSL that has been extremely reliable) from the only ISP 
available in the area.

I remember a usable web experience not too long ago on 28.8K/33.6K 
dialup (it was quite a while before said ILEC got a 56K-capable modem 
bank).  DSL started out here at 384k/128k.  On the positive side, we 
have a very low oversubscription ratio, so I actually get the full 
bandwidth the majority of the time, even video streaming. I also know 
all the network engineers there, too, and that also has its advantages.

(Yes, I am aware that rural living is a choice, and there are things 
worth a great deal more than bandwidth, that it's a tradeoff, etc.)

So it's not just '3rd-world' countries with expensive bandwidth.