[clug] [OT] Broadband clangers

[jeff]

  On 11/08/10 4:44 PM, Jim Croft wrote:
> Sorry I was a bit ambiguous - the costs below were just for the
> connection.  Netspeed as ISP have their hand in the other pocket for
> the download volume. :(
>
> presumably with the higher bandwidth available, people will be
> downloading orers of magnitude more and ISP volume charges will take a
> hit?  Or is this cloud cuckoo stuff?
>
Though I forgot to explicitly state it you got what I was driving at. 
Wholesale pricing is by bandwidth we just need to get it at the retail 
level. Being able to change quickly between providers by say logging out 
and then in again to another provider and avoiding contracts would help. 
We could even go as far being connected to multiple providers as 
selecting which way traffic was sent based on, say, the best price per 
half hour. Don't know what this would do to the routing besides make it 
painful for BGP. :-)

Jeff.