>>> "Nem" <zagadka@penguinpowered.com> 12/07/00 02:00PM >>>
Yeah, but all I want is a simple 256kbps (128k doesn't really do it for
me)
connection across _town_ that goes through maybe 2-3 exchanges at most.
How
much can that realistically cost relative to the cost of international
bandwidth.

When you're talking about going between exchanges, what do you mean.
You only go through one exchange before your physical connection is
terminated at a DSLAM. From then on, it may go through several exchanges
(which is invisible to the end user) before it gets off at the peering
ISP's router. What happens at a network level I would have thought to be
more important. For example, if you are using paradise and connect via
Dunedin, your connection might have to go all the way up to Wellington
then overseas, rather than going out an international gateway in
Christchurch.

Come to think of it, $100 a month would buy you 2 phone lines
(residential)
and the isp charge to use them, then you could multilink and you would
have
nearly 128k (before overheads etc etc, and then there's latency and so
on).

The only ISP in the country I know of that does multilink is xtra and
you can't have two flat-rate accounts. You can have one, but you have to
pay $2.50 an hour for each subsequent connection you make. Not to
mention that you're using up twice as many lines as before, and you may
still have to buy a third line if you wish to use the internet at the
same time, whereas jetstream frees up the phone line.

<<snip>>

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Received on Thu Dec 7 16:02:42 2000