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  From: Richard Russell <richardrussell@mail.com>
  To  : steve <steel@cyberqual.com>
        Simon Hackett <simon@internode.com.au>
        Mike Lindner <alloy@smug.adelaide.edu.au>
        Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org>
  Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 21:15:22 +1030

RE: AOL? or best ISP

> DOWNLOAD ....l 500mb nope sorry. I do not d/l games, music or the
> like, but
> anyone could very easily run over 500.  To be realistic 1000mb
> would cover me
> and then some, my kids could play games I could update my progs and surf
> without fear of extra costs.
>
> If you raised the mb I could live comfortably with everything else.

simple -- the "DIY Steve" account from Internode*:

Install: $259

Monthly:	$169/Mo		256k download/64k upload speeds
	OR	$209/Mo		1500k download/256k upload speeds

Includes:
		1000 Mb/Month download and (probably $0.16/Mb thereafter)

Does this suit you better, Steve? I am certain that Internode would come at
that, and if you happened not to use your full 1Gb, they would refund you up
to 500Mb worth of it. How did I create such an account? Easy! -- I added the
per Mb costs to the base account to make it up to 1Gb/Mo. The fact is that
bandwidth costs around 16c/Mb, and you're simply not going to find much
bandwidth cheaper than that anywhere (at least, not for a while -- no doubt
it will fall over time (IMHO) ), and so any account that was to offer you
1Gb would have to sell it for around that price... _maybe_ you could get it
for less than 16c/Mb, but I doubt it -- Lincoln College used to pay Adelaide
Uni ~18c/Mb for international traffic, and ~2c/Mb for Australian traffic...
but that's with Aarnet's help ... It averaged out at about 14c/Mb, but
remember that this is academic prices, with no profit...

rr

* I am in no way affiliated with Internode

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