Re: [cobalt-users] (no subject)

[Elmer Fuddpucker <elmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:

} 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.

	All you gotta do is read the TOS. A friend asked me this very
question last week. It's posted right there on the site. How they
keep things under control is very well explained. But your right,
most people would miss this end of things as none of what I saw that
could be used to throttle a site down had anything to do with
bandwidth.

	I must also add that we are right now paying for a T1 that
has yet to work. We're paying because I didn't read the TOS closely
enough. Worse yet, perhaps, it turns out that it's cheaper to pay
for it than it would be to try and clean up our credit credit
record if the provider gets nastier than they now are, and going
to court - our lawyer continually points out - where we may or may
not be able to prove it doesn't work would cost more than just
paying the blasted bill each month... and so we do just that.

	The point is, reading the fine print carefully has become
very important around here :-)

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