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Michael Peddemors (michael@linuxmagic.com)
Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:41:57 -0800
Yes, being in the business of hosting, that is always a marketing
issue..
"But the other ISP is giving unlimited bandwidth"
Yeah, until you try to start drawing it.. Sometimes they cut you off,
sometimes they force you to move to their 'gold package' and sometimes
they just let the pipe control the bandwidth.. T1's cost everyone about
the same... And it only has so much bandwidth..
I have seen ISP's promising unlimited bandwidth, that sell 500 customers
to the T1..
Doens't take a rocket scientist to show you that at peak time, when you
need it, some of your customers aren't reaching your site, or have very
slow access...
Hosting companies have to make money too, and noone gives something away
for nothing and stays in business long..
I constantly get customers who used to be on a free service, and the
ones that are business savvy, they understand you get what you pay
for..
> do this more by accident than design but the effect is the same.
>
> In real life I have seen unlimited bandwidth offered to a customer
> but a choke was put on the network access.
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