Why Are T1 Lines Still Expensive? 556
badfrog asks: "Over the last 10 years, DSL and cable modem has upped its speed (although in some instances only slightly) and dropped its price. However, the price of a T1 has stayed almost exactly the same. If you had asked me 10 years ago, I would have predicted any geek that wanted to would have fiber or their own T1 line to the house by now. What is with this sad state of affairs that a 'business class' 1.544Mbit connection is hundreds of dollars more than a 6Mbit cable connection? Is it a legitimate case that a high upload rate should increase cost so significantly?"
Re:consumer vs buisness grade (Score:4, Funny)
I know that Pacific Bell T1s always came with business grade support - as in, they are provided to you by a business whose motto is "We don't care, we don't have to, we're the phone company."
Re:Oh, come on! (Score:4, Funny)
"I wanted to go to Cambodia. You can get a lobster dinner for a dollar."
Re:Why are vacuum tubes expensive? (Score:5, Funny)
If I had mod points, I'd give them to you!
USE GOOGLE... (Score:5, Funny)
http://www.google.com/search?q=why+are+t1s+expens
First 10hits are questions on "Why is a T1 more expensive than DSL?"
Must be a slow news day.
(i know this is a troll but, "ask slashdot" questions should not be answered with the FIRST TEN hits in a google search).
Not surprising? (Score:3, Funny)
Why just last week, I was talking to my local ISP about my situation. I was interested in upgrading my 28.8 kilobaud Internet connection to a 1.5 megabit fiber optic T1 line, and was trying to determine if they were able to provide an IP router that was compatible with my Token Ring Ethernet LAN configuration. The bastard just looked at me blankly and asked:
"Can I have some money now?"
I mean, how the fuck are prices suppose to fall with that attitude?
Wireless ISP joke (Score:5, Funny)
"I was a hard-working clerk making $30,000 per year. I was frugal, living carefully, saving my money, and I was happy and content.
Then one day I fell in with some shady characters and I got suckered into a high-stakes poker game. That was my ruin. Now I am anxious, stressed, and miserable."
His friend says "So you fell into temptation and lost all your savings?"
"No, I won, and like a fool I bought this lousy Wireless internet company."
1 word (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Oh, come on! (Score:5, Funny)
turning the line around (Score:2, Funny)
It went 1200 in the fast direction, with something small like 50bps in the other direction.
The fun part was you could "turn the line around." One side could talk fast the other could o n l y s p e a k r e a l l y s l o w.
Should have tried the Internet King (Score:3, Funny)
Re:You've been robbed. (Score:3, Funny)
The expression "WHOOOOSH" comes to mind here.
Re:Oh, come on! (Score:1, Funny)
I expected better from a frist post!
Re:Oh, come on! (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:Oh, come on! (Score:4, Funny)
I'll get right on that when my torrents finish.
Re:Oh, come on! (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:Why are vacuum tubes expensive? (Score:1, Funny)
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Re:Oh, come on! (Score:2, Funny)
I'm thinking maybe you don't know what du jour means.
Re:Oh, come on! (Score:5, Funny)
not a typo. I'm complaining because we got a letter that said we now get 15mbit down, when in reality I'm still seeing 8mbit speeds. if I read online that we should have 15mbit, but I wasn't told that, it wouldn't' be such a big deal...
Just yesterday my roomate got a notice that he was overusing the campus network - 108 GB in one week. It's hanging on our door now.
oh man, I should post some stats that the netadmin at my school sent me when I was there. They threatened to shut us down and kick us out of the dorms if we kept it up. This is in 99/00, before napster got popular and downloaded movies took 2 full CDs and were mpeg format. my roommate and I both had a 2x burner and I had a 4GB and a 6GB drive in my computer, while he had 2 10GB drives. we were downloading faster than we could burn and by the end of the year we had a collection of over 300 movies.
In the email the netAdmin sent us, we were using the full dorm bandwidth (1MB/sec) sustained, both ways for 14 days straight with only the occasional break (when looking at the graphs, it was the times we ran out to get CDRs or we had to run around to other students and ask to borrow HD space in exchange for a copy of a movie).
THOSE were the days. you kids and your torrent files and your 500GB drives. Hell, I remember when you had to really SEARCH to find a server that had a decent selection AND gave you decent transfer speeds.
Re:Oh, come on! (Score:5, Funny)
Nietzsche, of course. "802.11g is dead."
Re:Oh, come on! (Score:4, Funny)
FINALLY! A real reason to upgrade to a T1: Piss off the neighbors.
-l
Re:Absolute BS. (Score:1, Funny)
Ok dude, this is
Your car analogy actually made sense.
Please Sir, step out of the pool.