----- Original Message -----
From: "Ford Peterson" <ford@cmgate.com>
To: "Kevin Hemsley" <kev@ida.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: [RFI] From Communications Daily re: BPL
The ISP is a rural carrier. They connect dial-up customers. And they do use a
T1. Sorry...
Ford-N0FP
ford@cmgate.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Hemsley" <kev@ida.net>
To: <rfi@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 10:32 AM
Subject: Re: [RFI] From Communications Daily re: BPL
> Ford Peterson (aa6yq) Wrote:
>
> >Hmmmm.... I can think of one ISP with a T1 line that serves over
> >1000 customers and never gets to 60% usage. That line costs
> >$1200/mo. I can think of another ISP that has cut a deal to share
> >a partially used line already installed at a business.
>
> I'm sorry Ford, but the discussion is regarding broadband access, and you
> cannot service 1000 broadband customers using 60% of a 1.54Mb circuit. Many
> years ago you could service 1000 small dial-up customers with a small feed
> like a T1. Not today. A single heavy-use broadband customer can easily use
> 60% of a T1 24/7. 1000 broadband customers on a T1? Not a chance. You are
> also forgetting transport costs.
>
> One of the issues that BPL proponents argue is that BPL can provide
> broadband access to rural communities that have been passed over by cable
> and DSL. If a community is truly that rural (and there are many such areas)
> then the transport cost alone for the Internet feed will be much more than
> the cost of the Internet feed. (There are two separate costs - transport and
> bandwidth.) As a result, the net cost is many times more expensive than the
> equivalent cost in a metro area. For example, the cost of bandwidth in
> Manhattan is very cheap compared to the same very expensive bandwidth in
> Bone, Idaho. Today it is still very expensive to haul big bandwidth into
> small rural areas. Don't underestimate that cost.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin.
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Kevin Hemsley
> Systems Engineer
> Microserv Computer Technologies, Inc.
> kev@ida.net
> NF7J
>
>
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