Very Computer

Just a newbie type of question.

Can an ISP lower its networking equipment outlay by buying faster hardware?
Basically as harware gets faster, fewer 'average joes' hang on the
line for slow downloads, thus fewer resources being kept on-line
to service the request when you have a large number of average joes.

Background to this is that I'm downloading Quantian new version liveCD.
Clocking in at 1.7Gb for the new DVD version,
thats going to take 6 hours with current ISP.
But I was abroad a few months ago in a near third world
country, for cheaper price I have more than double the speed
and would have done it in 3 hours and not likely
to repeat my download action for some time.

Hence the nagging thoughts/question.

No - it's the line and technology that you buy or lease that dictates
the speed, not the hardware you use for it (to any noticable extent).
Hardware dictates uptime, reliability, quality of service, etc.

Peter

Quote:> Just a newbie type of question.

> Can an ISP lower its networking equipment outlay by buying faster hardware?
> Basically as harware gets faster, fewer 'average joes' hang on the
> line for slow downloads, thus fewer resources being kept on-line
> to service the request when you have a large number of average joes.

Not hardware but faster local (customer) and backbone (internet) links
would help. However I suspect it will serve more to increase the amount of
downloads than shorten the amount of time an average user spends online.

BTW, if readers around the world contribute, it would be interesting to
compare how internet access is priced at various places around the world.

In my locality (Turkey) it is:

Dial-up (subscribed): 31.45 EUR/yr + 0.34 to 0.67 EUR/hr depending on the
day and time.
Dial-up (ad-hoc)    : 0 EUR/yr + 1.17 to 2.35 EUR/hr (same day/time deps.)

ADSL 128/32   : 26.58  EUR/mo --> that's me
ADSL 256/64   : 37.41  EUR/mo
ADSL 512/128  : 59.11  EUR/mo
ADSL 1024/256 : 97.07  EUR/mo
ADSL 2048/512 : 151.30 EUR/mo

And sharing ADSL connection is permitted.

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Here in California, US:

I pay $56.99usd a month for Comcast cable connection (3mbps down,
256mbps up). With various deals (like if the subscriber already has
their cable tv service), the cost can be closer to $40/month.

DSL (1.5mbps down, 128mbps up) is around $30/month.

Dial-up varies depending on the ISP, but can range from $10/month to
$around 25/month (with AOL being the most expensive, I think). There
are usually different plans with dial-up ISP's where the ISP will offer
a cheaper plan for limited access. The limits are for the number of
hours the subscriber uses and AFAIK the time of day doesn't enter into
it.

HTH,

Malke
--
"I have a cunning plan..."

Quote:> BTW, if readers around the world contribute, it would be interesting to
> compare how internet access is priced at various places around the world.

> In my locality (Turkey) it is:

> Dial-up (subscribed): 31.45 EUR/yr + 0.34 to 0.67 EUR/hr depending on the
> day and time.
> Dial-up (ad-hoc)    : 0 EUR/yr + 1.17 to 2.35 EUR/hr (same day/time deps.)

> ADSL 128/32   : 26.58  EUR/mo --> that's me
> ADSL 256/64   : 37.41  EUR/mo
> ADSL 512/128  : 59.11  EUR/mo
> ADSL 1024/256 : 97.07  EUR/mo
> ADSL 2048/512 : 151.30 EUR/mo

> And sharing ADSL connection is permitted.

Here in the UK my ISP charges
Dial Up (subscribed) 65 UKp/mo unlimited, 12 UKp/mo 20 hour cap.
Dial Up  (ad hoc)  0.04UKp/min, approx
ADSL 512/256    : 19.15 UKp/mo uncapped, 50:1 contention
ADSL 2048/256   : 59.56 UKp/mo uncapped, 20:1 contention

that's around 10%a bit cheaper than the big ISPs.  Some, like Wanado
and Tiscali don't seem to offer uncapped DSL at all.

Holland (XS4ALL ADSL):

I pay around 51 EUR for my 2400/420 connection, on 25:1 uncapped.

But you can get as low as 79 EUR for 7.2 mbits uncapped.

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J

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