Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 15:36:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek <ac199@hwcn.org> To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Cc: ac199@hwcn.org, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My verdict on 2.2.7... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980724145950.13066C-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <ML-3.3.901305722.9874.patl@asimov>
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On Fri, 24 Jul 1998 patl@phoenix.volant.org wrote: > Ok, let's take long distance. Long distance carriers are currently > touting their 'ten cents a minute' plans. So a 20 hour download > would cost $120. Local rates for a business line run around five > cents a minute, which would cut it to $60. Local residential rates > are a bit more complex; but could drop it under the CD price. (Going > to a 4 CD set kicked the price up enough to make the equation more > reasonable.) You actually want to argue this!? Okay... Deal with local calls first. Local rates for a business is: zero cents @ minute. They only need to cover the monthly fee and their Internet access. 'net costs can vary, but I'll take what I pay: $25 for 200hours (if you check my ISP's homepage it'll say 150hours, but it's wrong :). I'll discount the monthly line fee, since that's a prereq for owning a business in the first place. That's 12cents an hour. That means a business will pay something on the order of $2.40 cents to download FreeBSD. The case for a non-business (in this case, me) works out to be about the same. Okay, what about the long-distance case? Well, we'll keep the same ISP. Nevermind that this particular ISP happens to have connection points in most major centres, we'll still make the ld call home. My reference to long-distance was perhaps unfair. Because someone in this house works for Bell (the phone company), our phone bill gets chopped in half. Since the exchange rate makes the CDs $60 (non-subscription), it'll be close. However, if you can find a bulk reseller with lines that are high-quality enough to use a modem over, you'll be able to beat the CD price no problem, I believe. Of course, this is totally unreal. Internet access is available within the local calling area for almost everyone now-a-days (still keeping the same caveat about "Uh, I don't know where you live, but..." :). There is simply no comparison at all for the local case. -- This .sig is not innovative, witty, or profund. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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