[AusNOG] Internet connectivity costs

[Skeeve Stevens]

Hey Ben,

While I am sure a retailer of services will contact you, I don't think the purpose of this list is to provide information to end-users.

...Skeeve

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From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Ben O'Loghlin
Sent: Wednesday, 18 March 2009 1:55 AM
To: ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: [AusNOG] Internet connectivity costs

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<http://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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