50,000 bits/s = 6,250 bytes/s is a good speed for 56K modems.

That's = 375,000 B/s

Or =~ 21.45MB/h

Or =~5GB/month, based on 12 hours and 20 days. Bit optimistic to expect max
speed, however, so 2.5GB is probably more realistic.

$5 per GB isn't bad though. On my Jetstream 1500 plan, 5GB would cost me
$921.60 in excess volume charges, if I went over my normal allocation at 7.5
cents a MB.

-- Juha

%-> -----Original Message-----
%-> From: owner-adsl@unixathome.org [mailto:owner-adsl@unixathome.org]On
%-> Behalf Of MX
%-> Sent: Thursday, 5 October 2000 10:58 p.m.
%-> To: ADSL Mailing List
%-> Subject: Re: clear/telecom deal
%->
%->
%-> think u made a wee calculation error .. 2.4 gig
%->
%->
%-> ----- Original Message -----
%-> From: "keri Ring" <techsol@ihug.co.nz>
%-> To: <adsl@unixathome.org>
%-> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 9:03 PM
%-> Subject: Re: clear/telecom deal
%->
%->
%-> > Does DSL data cost an isp more than modem based data?
%-> >
%-> > Cos essentially I could get a flat rate dial up connection and use
%-> >
%-> > approx 10meg per hour, * 12hrs per day, * 20 days per month
%-> (heavy usage
%-> > average)
%-> >
%-> > giving 24 gigs data for a measly $24.95,
%-> >
%-> > thats a data cost of 1.04c per megabyte. - even if you take
%-> 10% of this
%-> > usage it is only 10c per mb!
%-> >
%-> > Are these ISP's offering flate rate making large losses,
%-> > or are we simply paying what the market will stand for dsl? at 20c per
%-> meg.
%-> >
%-> > ----- Original Message -----
%-> > From: Nigel Roberts <nigel@snippy.paradise.net.nz>
%-> > To: Pete <speed@advcomm.co.nz>
%-> > Cc: <adsl@unixathome.org>
%-> > Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 1:29 PM
%-> > Subject: RE: clear/telecom deal
%-> >
%-> >
%-> > > Not true, Paradise.Net provides all national/international
%-> bandwidth for
%-> > it's
%-> > > ADSL users. This is easily demonstrated by a traceroute to any
%-> > well-connected
%-> > > site through a paradise ADSL connection.
%-> > >
%-> > > Oh, and Chello has very little to do with Paradise. :)
%-> > >
%-> > > Nigel
%-> > >
%-> > > Quoting Pete <speed@advcomm.co.nz>:
%-> > >
%-> > > > > %-> bandiwidth (from
%-> > > > > %-> what I gather). Telecom do (although it passes
%-> through the ISP
%-> > > > > %-> if they want it
%-> > > > > %-> to (for caching purposes etc).
%-> > > > >
%-> > > > > No, that's not how it works. Paradise e.g uses Telstra
%-> for parts of
%-> > > > their
%-> > > > > international connectivity.
%-> > > >
%-> > > > For dial-up users yes (and chello connected users etc),
%-> but I believe
%-> if
%-> > > > you are
%-> > > > a DSL ISP your DSL users get their bandwidth through
%-> Telecom (or that
%-> is
%-> > > > at
%-> > > > least an option to the ISP). Which is why Telecom charge you for
%-> > > > bandwidth
%-> > > > useage.
%-> > > >
%-> > > > Rgds,
%-> > > > Pete
%-> > > >
%-> > > >
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