Your internet usage costs you provider $0.50 per gig downloaded.

[biggiesmallz]

http://telephonyonline.com/iptv/news/BellSouth_VOD_costs_030706/

 

[Zim Hosein]

Today?s average residential broadband user consumes about 2 gigbytes of data per month

I consume way more than that on a monthly basis!

 

[biggiesmallz]

So why is some of us paying $50/month.

Seems like a hugh profit margin.

Hopefully most of it goes to research and development and not CEO's

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

I have to wonder what is calculated into that per GB cost - are administrative fees, support costs, etc. all factored into there?

 

[Yossarian]

yeah I consume a lot of bandwidth. you should see what I excrete.

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: biggiesmallz
So why is some of us paying $50/month.

Seems like a hugh profit margin.

Hopefully most of it goes to research and development and not CEO's

Yeah right, just like every corporation, huh?

 

[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
I have to wonder what is calculated into that per GB cost - are administrative fees, support costs, etc. all factored into there?

No way that includes everything, otherwise postage to mail your bill every month would account for 1/3 of their total costs.

This is equivalent to looking at the cost of pressing a CD + printing a retail box & bitching at Microsoft for charging $200 for Windows.

Viper GTS

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: Yossarian
yeah I consume a lot of bandwidth. you should see what I excrete.

:Q

 

[SampSon]

They lie.

 

[DaiShan]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Today?s average residential broadband user consumes about 2 gigbytes of data per month

I consume way more than that on an hourly basis!

fixed

 

[biggiesmallz]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
I have to wonder what is calculated into that per GB cost - are administrative fees, support costs, etc. all factored into there?

No way that includes everything, otherwise postage to mail your bill every month would account for 1/3 of their total costs.

This is equivalent to looking at the cost of pressing a CD + printing a retail box & bitching at Microsoft for charging $200 for Windows.

Viper GTS

And them getting taken to court and getting sued for millions... and losing

http://www.nydailynews.com/business/story/400075p-338939c.html

 

[Yossarian]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Originally posted by: Yossarian
yeah I consume a lot of bandwidth. you should see what I excrete.

:Q

ok I'm a little scared that I knew you were going to bold that and do the shocked guy.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: biggiesmallz

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
I have to wonder what is calculated into that per GB cost - are administrative fees, support costs, etc. all factored into there?

No way that includes everything, otherwise postage to mail your bill every month would account for 1/3 of their total costs.

This is equivalent to looking at the cost of pressing a CD + printing a retail box & bitching at Microsoft for charging $200 for Windows.

Viper GTS

And them getting taken to court and getting sued for millions... and losing

http://www.nydailynews.com/business/story/400075p-338939c.html

:roll:

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: Yossarian

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Originally posted by: Yossarian
yeah I consume a lot of bandwidth. you should see what I excrete.

:Q

ok I'm a little scared that I knew you were going to bold that and do the shocked guy.

We're both running the same processor family Yossarian!

 

[DarkKnight69]

2 GB per month? I am usually pulling in well over a 100GB in a month!

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: DaiShan

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Today?s average residential broadband user consumes about 2 gigbytes of data per month

I consume way more than that on an hourly basis!

fixed

As long as we don't "speak" of the "content," it's all good DaiShan! :beer:

 

[Shlong]

Originally posted by: DarkKnight69
2 GB per month? I am usually pulling in well over a 100GB in a month!

One of the few getting their money's worth. 10GB average here.

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
I have to wonder what is calculated into that per GB cost - are administrative fees, support costs, etc. all factored into there?

You have to pay for the cost of the lines too, it's expensive to run thousands of miles of cable accross a city and keep it maintained. But I am sure the profit margins are relitivly high, even though they gave me a free modem to use.

 

[eelw]

Cool. I get $200 for only $45 (cnd)

 

[acemcmac]

I wish I had some good way to figure out how much bandwith I use

 

[SampSon]

Originally posted by: acemcmac
I wish I had some good way to figure out how much bandwith I use

Get a bandwidgth/network monitor.

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: acemcmac
I wish I had some good way to figure out how much bandwith I use

Software does exist to monitor and record such data. Some routers will also monitor your usage too.

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Today?s average residential broadband user consumes about 2 gigbytes of data per month

I consume way more than that on a monthly basis!

I easily consumed 60GB one month useing P2P software.

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: acemcmac
I wish I had some good way to figure out how much bandwith I use

DUMeter.

 

[0roo0roo]

shens. other countries like canada/korea have broadband that makes ours look like dialup. because of massive cheap bandwidth south koreans have had stuff like video on demand for a while now. either they are taking massive losses or theres some bs going on