> Still, I agree that 128k doesn't really cut the mustard. I'd like to use the
> current jetstream, but with local/national/international pricing scheme.

I can't see any ISP wanting to do this these days... this was the way things were in the old days when you had data charges on a dialup. These providers were typically reselling bandwidth they'd bought locally so this pricing structure worked ok. These days most ISP's pay for a pipe up to NetGate (or some other International gateway), as does the ISP down the road, even though he's in the same town. This means 'local' traffic would go up and down the country just to get across the street. If you had a national/international split this is a moot point, but it still means all traffic has to be logged and resolved back to a .nz domain to be charged at the lower rate. I remember the headaches and complaints involved in this... and although I agree the traffic rates are a little step, especially when you're downloading something off a 56k luser I have to ask myself, "Why aren't I using dialup for this?"... I don't really think many would want to go back to this.

I think we just need to move towards flatrate :)

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Received on Fri Dec 15 00:41:13 2000