Is this a reasonable cost for fiber?
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We were looking at a fiber connection to our office. The city (who is in charge of it) wants 750 a month for 5mbps bidirectional, and 12.5K to install it. The fiber is already laid in the park where our office is located. Seems awfully high to me. What do all of you think? Thanks!
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We were looking at a fiber connection to our office. The city (who is in charge of it) wants 750 a month for 5mbps bidirectional, and 12.5K to install it. The fiber is already laid in the park where our office is located. Seems awfully high to me. What do all of you think? Thanks!
I had to check your profile, just to be sure that you weren't in a third world country. It sounds horrendously expensive to me particularly the connection charge. Although if the 5mbps is truly bidirectional that sounds like a leased line which always were on the pricey side.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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We were looking at a fiber connection to our office. The city (who is in charge of it) wants 750 a month for 5mbps bidirectional, and 12.5K to install it. The fiber is already laid in the park where our office is located. Seems awfully high to me. What do all of you think? Thanks!
Sounds like a monopoly situation. We're upgrading to 100mb fiber at our office at the end of the year. It'll cost us $3000 to install and $700 per month
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We were looking at a fiber connection to our office. The city (who is in charge of it) wants 750 a month for 5mbps bidirectional, and 12.5K to install it. The fiber is already laid in the park where our office is located. Seems awfully high to me. What do all of you think? Thanks!
(I'm assuming the figures are in USD) $750 for 5MBs sounds about OK, provided that it's uncontended, and that there's a proper commercial SLA behind it. For exmaple, we has a leased line in an office where if we lost connectivity for a continuous 12 hours, we got 3 months connectivity for free. $12.5K to blow the fibre in sounds a bit high. Does that also include the all the network termination equipment (typically it's at least two separate devices to turn "light" into "Ethernet"), or is it just installing the naked fibre?
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We were looking at a fiber connection to our office. The city (who is in charge of it) wants 750 a month for 5mbps bidirectional, and 12.5K to install it. The fiber is already laid in the park where our office is located. Seems awfully high to me. What do all of you think? Thanks!
$750 for 5mbps? I pay $60 a month for a 5mbps cable connection with Charter. But that's download speed, I'm sure upload comes nowhere close to that. Maybe because it's a business they expect you to use the full 5mbps and that's why it costs more. My guess is that they charge clients they think can pay the price to upgrade their infrastructure while other smaller clients may pay less. But that's just my conspiracy theory.
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We were looking at a fiber connection to our office. The city (who is in charge of it) wants 750 a month for 5mbps bidirectional, and 12.5K to install it. The fiber is already laid in the park where our office is located. Seems awfully high to me. What do all of you think? Thanks!
For fiber? Sounds like a bit much... Even in NYC, a box of cereal is going to cost, say, six bucks tops. Now, you figure you go through a box a week, or something like that. With a little rounding, we're talking about 25 bucks a month per person. How many people do you have in your office? For 750 a month, you could buy enough cereal for 30 people... Wait a second, we're only talking weekdays here... So a box might last a bit longer than a week... Say 40 people on 750 a month. Granted, I haven't had cereal in a long time (I'm more of a bagel person), so my estimates could be off... As for the 12.5k... That's just silly... I mean you need a refrigerator for the milk, and-- AHH! I forgot about the milk... Ok, that'd raise the price a bit. Maybe if you're having one of those industrial-size fridges put in, it could run you that high... But I think that's overkill for a relatively simple problem. Disclaimer: Yes, I know which "fiber" you mean... This is a pathetic attempt at humor while I stay late at work waiting to be dragged out for a business dinner... Code phrase for "Work really late when not otherwise necessary, but get a free meal out of it"
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For fiber? Sounds like a bit much... Even in NYC, a box of cereal is going to cost, say, six bucks tops. Now, you figure you go through a box a week, or something like that. With a little rounding, we're talking about 25 bucks a month per person. How many people do you have in your office? For 750 a month, you could buy enough cereal for 30 people... Wait a second, we're only talking weekdays here... So a box might last a bit longer than a week... Say 40 people on 750 a month. Granted, I haven't had cereal in a long time (I'm more of a bagel person), so my estimates could be off... As for the 12.5k... That's just silly... I mean you need a refrigerator for the milk, and-- AHH! I forgot about the milk... Ok, that'd raise the price a bit. Maybe if you're having one of those industrial-size fridges put in, it could run you that high... But I think that's overkill for a relatively simple problem. Disclaimer: Yes, I know which "fiber" you mean... This is a pathetic attempt at humor while I stay late at work waiting to be dragged out for a business dinner... Code phrase for "Work really late when not otherwise necessary, but get a free meal out of it"
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Ian Shlasko wrote:
(I'm more of a bagel person)
I'm more of a: Two eggs (over medium) and Two sausage patties and Three or four strips of bacon and Fried potatoes with green peppers, onions, and cheddar cheese and Toast kind of guy.
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Ian Shlasko wrote:
(I'm more of a bagel person)
I'm more of a: Two eggs (over medium) and Two sausage patties and Three or four strips of bacon and Fried potatoes with green peppers, onions, and cheddar cheese and Toast kind of guy.
so you are a fat moron then?
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so you are a fat moron then?
------------------------------------ "I'm going to walk around a field dangling my keys on a bit of string until I hear whistling noises. " Steve Harris 2009
Dalek Dave wrote:
so you are a fat moron then?
No you are, and a drunk one at that. I'm lean & mean.
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so you are a fat moron then?
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Please, some of my best friends are morons. But I love them anyway.
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I am sure you do, but I bet they don't spout ill-informed and ignorant bollocks continually and then get in a hissy-fit if you ever happen to disagree with them. I may add that some of my friends are fat, and yet they are nice people. I have nothing against fat people or morons, it is just that strange central zone in the Venn Diagram of Fat, Moron, Ignorant and Closed-Minded. In fact it is a population of about 3, Gillian, CaptainThicko and Teh Developer (in his new guise).
------------------------------------ "I'm going to walk around a field dangling my keys on a bit of string until I hear whistling noises. " Steve Harris 2009
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I am sure you do, but I bet they don't spout ill-informed and ignorant bollocks continually and then get in a hissy-fit if you ever happen to disagree with them. I may add that some of my friends are fat, and yet they are nice people. I have nothing against fat people or morons, it is just that strange central zone in the Venn Diagram of Fat, Moron, Ignorant and Closed-Minded. In fact it is a population of about 3, Gillian, CaptainThicko and Teh Developer (in his new guise).
------------------------------------ "I'm going to walk around a field dangling my keys on a bit of string until I hear whistling noises. " Steve Harris 2009
Dalek Dave wrote:
I have nothing against fat people or morons
Just as well, really! :-D
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Dalek Dave wrote:
I have nothing against fat people or morons
Just as well, really! :-D
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
Why, because there are so many of them?
------------------------------------ "I'm going to walk around a field dangling my keys on a bit of string until I hear whistling noises. " Steve Harris 2009
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Why, because there are so many of them?
------------------------------------ "I'm going to walk around a field dangling my keys on a bit of string until I hear whistling noises. " Steve Harris 2009
I was thinking personally. :) OT: Weren't England awful tonight, until Becks came on.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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I was thinking personally. :) OT: Weren't England awful tonight, until Becks came on.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
Yes, but Crouch should have been Motm! I just watched the fat, cheating, coke addict manage to get argentina to the world Cup. Bugger, I wanted them out.
------------------------------------ "I'm going to walk around a field dangling my keys on a bit of string until I hear whistling noises. " Steve Harris 2009
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We were looking at a fiber connection to our office. The city (who is in charge of it) wants 750 a month for 5mbps bidirectional, and 12.5K to install it. The fiber is already laid in the park where our office is located. Seems awfully high to me. What do all of you think? Thanks!
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I am sure you do, but I bet they don't spout ill-informed and ignorant bollocks continually and then get in a hissy-fit if you ever happen to disagree with them. I may add that some of my friends are fat, and yet they are nice people. I have nothing against fat people or morons, it is just that strange central zone in the Venn Diagram of Fat, Moron, Ignorant and Closed-Minded. In fact it is a population of about 3, Gillian, CaptainThicko and Teh Developer (in his new guise).
------------------------------------ "I'm going to walk around a field dangling my keys on a bit of string until I hear whistling noises. " Steve Harris 2009
Dalek Dave wrote:
it is just that strange central zone in the Venn Diagram of Fat, Moron, Ignorant and Closed-Minded.
Reminds me of you! :laugh:
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I was thinking personally. :) OT: Weren't England awful tonight, until Becks came on.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
I don't know if it is possible to look as bad as the USA has so far. Two goals against in the first half. :rolleyes: -edit- there was some very good attacking in the last few minutes of the half but no scoring.
modified on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 8:54 PM
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For fiber? Sounds like a bit much... Even in NYC, a box of cereal is going to cost, say, six bucks tops. Now, you figure you go through a box a week, or something like that. With a little rounding, we're talking about 25 bucks a month per person. How many people do you have in your office? For 750 a month, you could buy enough cereal for 30 people... Wait a second, we're only talking weekdays here... So a box might last a bit longer than a week... Say 40 people on 750 a month. Granted, I haven't had cereal in a long time (I'm more of a bagel person), so my estimates could be off... As for the 12.5k... That's just silly... I mean you need a refrigerator for the milk, and-- AHH! I forgot about the milk... Ok, that'd raise the price a bit. Maybe if you're having one of those industrial-size fridges put in, it could run you that high... But I think that's overkill for a relatively simple problem. Disclaimer: Yes, I know which "fiber" you mean... This is a pathetic attempt at humor while I stay late at work waiting to be dragged out for a business dinner... Code phrase for "Work really late when not otherwise necessary, but get a free meal out of it"
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Ya just gotta love unexpected dry humor like this ... and the recalc on the milk put it over the top. 5. :laugh:
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For fiber? Sounds like a bit much... Even in NYC, a box of cereal is going to cost, say, six bucks tops. Now, you figure you go through a box a week, or something like that. With a little rounding, we're talking about 25 bucks a month per person. How many people do you have in your office? For 750 a month, you could buy enough cereal for 30 people... Wait a second, we're only talking weekdays here... So a box might last a bit longer than a week... Say 40 people on 750 a month. Granted, I haven't had cereal in a long time (I'm more of a bagel person), so my estimates could be off... As for the 12.5k... That's just silly... I mean you need a refrigerator for the milk, and-- AHH! I forgot about the milk... Ok, that'd raise the price a bit. Maybe if you're having one of those industrial-size fridges put in, it could run you that high... But I think that's overkill for a relatively simple problem. Disclaimer: Yes, I know which "fiber" you mean... This is a pathetic attempt at humor while I stay late at work waiting to be dragged out for a business dinner... Code phrase for "Work really late when not otherwise necessary, but get a free meal out of it"
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It not so much the front end costs, but the back end costs.