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Re: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Windows Zombies Emit Well Over 100,000,000,000 SPAM Per Day

Verily I say unto thee, that bbgruff spake thusly:
> The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, bbgruff <bbgruff@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on
>> Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:43:31 +0100
>>> The Ghost In The Machine wrote:

>>>> [+] I pay $40 per month for a 1.5Mb/s ISDN connection.  There 
>>>> are cheaper plans, I'm sure.
>>> 
>>> You really meant to type that?
>>> 
>>> Curious:-)
> 
> (snip)
> 
>> I probably should have said DSL instead of ISDN.
> 
> (snip)
> 
> Thanks G - *that* was the question! I was just wondering there if you
> guys had got some new-fangled version of ISDN:-)

Theoretically one could bond 24 64Kb ISDN channels to achieve 1.5Mb/s
the really hard (and expensive) way, I suppose. Also I believe that each
line only supports 128k ISDN2e, so he'd need to have 12 phone lines too.
In UK (BT) price terms, that's 12 line rentals @ £10.50/month, plus 12
ISDN2e subs @ £97.47/quarter, plus the cost of calls (no flat rate like
ADSL), plus VAT @ 17.5%. That's £7,273.91/year ($13,573.21) including
VAT, but excluding the cost of calls, which according to my experience
might easily be around £1000.00/quarter for a heavily used line, giving
a conservative rounded total of around 10 grand UK (20 grand US) a year.

Ouch!

Compare that to the cheapest (that I could find) ADSL price in the UK
(Sky Broadband) @ £5.00/month or £60/year ($112), for 8*Mb/s*.

> Now (just for comparison) I get 8Mb down, 1.2 Mb up for (converting)
> $28, and the option of "up to 24Mb" down for about $37, but I doubt
> I'd get much more than 8Mb if I opted for it (line condition and 
> distance), so I just go with the cheaper.  All "unlimited bandwidth",
> but a "fair use" clause.

Our 21CN PSTN switchover target is supposed to be Q3 2011. Until then
I'll have to "make do" with 8Mb/s.

> While I have your attention, may I ask what you guys pay typically 
> for a telephone line and national calls?  In fact, considering the 
> size of the U.S., perhaps we ought to say "unlimited calls withing 
> the state!"?

It'd be interesting to see if the 20k figure above is accurate, or
merely representative of "Rip-Off Britain".

-- 
K.
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