[AusNOG] Internet connectivity costs

[Ben O'Loghlin]

Can anyone help me out here. I want to understand indicative commercial
pricing for a 1.5 Mbps symmetric (ideally) links to the Internet. 

 

If I look at www.broadbandguide.com.au I see that the biggest monthly caps
available are from Dodo at 100GB, and it's around $70/month. 

 

By my calculations this cap would allow you to have a 24-hr average of only
20% for a  1.5Mbps link. Besides which the 100GB is "off peak", and if you
go over then it's shaped to 64Kbps (i.e. 3 sec delay and they drop every
other packet).

 

On the other hand, I see that NextGen are offering all-you-can-eat internet
connections, but they don't publish pricing and I'm not sure if you have to
have big-end-of-town buying power.

 

The scenarios that I have in mind is to have between 5 and 100 locations all
with decent internet access. There would be quite a lot of file transfer
involved but not much requirement for security or real-time performance.

 

Problem is I don't know the market so I don't know where to start, beyond
approaching it as a domestic broadband punter might. can anyone give me some
pointers, either on-list or off-list?

 

Note that I'm not looking to talk to salespeople at this stage, just
exploring options.

 

Thanks all,

 

 

 

 

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