[Asterisk-Users] Pricing for DS3000P

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On Sunday 05 June 2005 08:39, trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com wrote:
> I dont know about other countries, but in 1997 I worked at an ISP.  The
> iunternet was popular enough then and dialup was $20/mo. At that point
> in time 7:1 was good to reduce busy signals for all but 1 hour a day
> (split morning and afternoon).  10:1 resulted in many hours of busy
> signals.  Now I would imagine that the demand for dialup, at least in

Yes, but now also take into account that as you increase the number of 
channels, you can also drive the ratio up.  7:1 was about right (I think we 
preferred 6.5:1, but it was many years ago) when we had 96 channels.  However 
now we have roughly 3300 channels and the sweet spot seems to be around 10:1.

Now mind you we do some "advanced" logins too...  the top 1% of our userbase 
in terms of minutes used are actively booted off and disallowed login during 
busy times (these are the campers, they're on 24/7).  This really does help, 
and if they get pissed off enough to leave it really doesn't affect us 
negatively.  In fact it helps.

Typically in terms of complaints we tend to hear from the old grannies and 
casual users who can't get on during busy times, and our active kickoff of 
the campers has almost eliminated that, which indicates to me that we're 
close to "optimum".

Regards,
Andrew