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[Hook]

Leon Brooks wrote :
> On Thursday 20 December 2001 04:19, Hook wrote:
> > Anthony Jones wrote:
> >> They are basically charging you for these things because they've got
the
> >> power to deny you these things. I understand that WAIX traffic is yet
> >> another thing that they don't pay for but users do.
>
> > A common misconception. WAIX traffic isn't free to iiNet. There's the
cost
> > of the pipe, the equipment cost and the cost of housing and running the
> > equipment. Had you said that it cost less than bringing it in through
uunet
> > (for example) you'd probably have been right - but free it ain't
>
> Disagree. You are only looking at one small part of the situation, and a
> slightly wider focus gives a completely different picture. If iiNet had to
> get data from (e.g.) an EfTel or AARNet mirror via Telstra rather than
WAIX,
> it would cost them over 10c a megabyte (likely around 15c). The amortised
> cost to them of WAIX must be well under a cent for each megabyte they get
> through it, so for each megabyte they fetch through it the cost is *minus*
at
> least 9c.

iiNet don't look at it that way. Their costs are low for WAIX, agreed, but
to suggest that the cost is negative (i.e. they make money out of every byte
that gets pulled from there) is crazy.

Paul Wilson