At 4/25/01 09:39 AM -0500, you wrote:
I went for their RaQ2 which is only $70 a month with 150GB (IIRC, certainly more bandwitdth than I can use!).
You wanna try explaining to me how anyone can give you "real" 150GB of transfer per month for $70? This is equivalent to almost half-a-megabit per second, 24/7, every second of the month... for $70.
A T-1 line (1.5 Mbps) costs about $1,500. Smaller links are more expensive per unit, so a 512 Kbps link would cost about $1,000. But since they buy in bulk, let's assume they get a T-1 for $500... absurdly low. How are they going to make money if they sell that for $210?
Read your terms of use carefully. Betcha you were just so dazzled by the number you just haven't fully understood how it works.
(It still might be a deal you're happy with... I'm not telling you to leave them; just to know the difference between truth and marketing.)
-- Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx