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Originally posted by goBigtime
I get a solid 3 megabits for ~$16/mbit, so do a lot of people here - via Comcast , and that's a retail priced service.
If a hosting company has, say, 10 gigE's, and that company was only selling 10mbit connections, that company could probably oversell the 10gigE's about 4 times (40gigE's worth) before running close to capacity on the 10gigE's.
It's all about how many clients you have (or can get) and how much total bandwidth you have available.
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That is also 3Mbps of *inbound* bandwidth, and that as well is oversold and there is already proof of it in neighborhoods which does not have the infrastructure available to support the number of users subscribed and causes service degredation.
The fact is, prices are controlled by the main carriers in the industry - and as far as pricing goes now, HE.net is probably the cheapest on a GigE at $20k, but along with that you have to deal with most of their traffic offloaded to Wiltel transit.
There are better deals available, for only a couple thousand more, but you must already have very nice commits with the providers/carriers and good personal connections.