[Asterisk-Users] Pricing for DS3000P

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On Sunday 05 June 2005 11:14, John Millican wrote:
> This thread is a bit OT but I can't help respond.  I live in an area where
> my only choice is dial up, Directway, or T-1.  The first is $10 to $20 a
> month , Dway $40 and crappy service, T-1 $500+ too much for my budget.  I
> am on the computer checking e-mail get service packs for Windoze a major
> portion of the day and yet my provider sees fit to disconnect me after 12
> hours weather i have been trying to get that stupid 200 meg SP2 for MS crap
> or not.  It would be my opinion that after a time of INACTIVITY sure
> disconnect, but if there is actual traffic DO NOT DISCONNECT.

With what we do you wouldn't be disconnected unless you're doing this 
continually and make it into our top 1% of time users;  With 15k users, the 
top 1% are invariably the ones who leave their connection on, month after 
month, 24/7.  

So, as you can see, we punish the abusive users of what is intended to be an 
interactive session.  Your 24h download wouldn't even show up on our radar.

But -- to counterpoint -- Why doesn't MS SP updates allow continued downloads?  
HTTP has a provision for this.  FTP has a provision for this.  Rsync has a 
provision for this.  The answer?  They want you to pony up for the update 
CD.  :-)

-A.