[WISPA] Bandwidth Promo

[Josh Luthman]

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Josh Luthman
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On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Andy Trimmell <atrimmell at precisionds.com>wrote:

> 50Mbit for $450 a month isn't bad for a pipe to AT&T. We're paying 10x that
> from AT&T right now.
>
> $0.90? come on give me a break. If that's possible then we should sue AT&T
> for highway robbery.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wireless-bounces at wispa.org [mailto:wireless-bounces at wispa.org] On
> Behalf Of Mike Hammett
> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 1:26 PM
> To: WISPA General List
> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo
>
> Did you mean $9/meg or $0.90/meg?  $9/meg isn't much to write home about.
> ;-)
>
>
> -----
> Mike Hammett
> Intelligent Computing Solutions
> http://www.ics-il.com
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> From: "Justin Wilson" <j2sw at mtin.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 11:48 AM
> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless at wispa.org>; "RickG"
> <rgunderson at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo
>
> >    Yup.  If you are at an on-net building you can get it even cheaper.
> > One
> > client is buying for $9 a meg in bulk in Chicago.  Their biggest hurdle
> > are
> > peering agreements with the big boys.  The AT&t¹s of the world are sort
> of
> > tolerating them at the moment until they can figure out what to do.  They
> > tried de-peering with them a few years ago and there was an outcry.  Lots
> > of
> > web-sites are hosted on cogent bandwidth.
> >
> > Justin
> >
> > --
> > Justin Wilson <j2sw at mtin.net>
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> > From: RickG <rgunderson at gmail.com>
> > Reply-To: WISPA General List <wireless at wispa.org>
> > Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:33:16 -0500
> > To: WISPA General List <wireless at wispa.org>
> > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Bandwidth Promo
> >
> > I hear $1500 for a gig!
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Mike Hammett
> > <wispawireless at ics-il.net>wrote:
> >
> >> I wish I was a bit closer to a POP to take advantage of it, but my
> Cogent
> >> rep informed me that through the end of the month, they have a promo
> >> going
> >> $400/100 megabit 1 year contract.  Only available at Cogent and carrier
> >> neutral data centers.  These facilities are listed on their web site
> >> under
> >> the network heading.  A complete building list (and not eligible for
> this
> >> promo) is available in the service locator under Dedicated Internet
> >> access.
> >>
> >> Not all of their host buildings allow roof access, but I believe a
> >> significant number of them do.  I encourage you to build your network
> out
> >> to
> >> these facilities.
> >>
> >> Sure, someone's going to hop on here and complain about how horrible
> >> Cogent
> >> is, but every carrier has their good and bad spots.  I'm sure I could
> >> find
> >> someone to honestly say the same things about AT&T, VZB, Level3,
> >> InterNAP,
> >> XO, MZima, etc., etc.  It doesn't matter the carrier, I strongly
> >> encourage
> >> you to have more than one.
> >>
> >> Feel free to blast the list with questions about building your network
> to
> >> Cogent, routing policies to best combine Cogent and your existing
> >> provider,
> >> etc.  These things would apply to any carrier, not just Cogent.
> >>
> >>
> >> -----
> >> Mike Hammett
> >> Intelligent Computing Solutions
> >> http://www.ics-il.com
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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