Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!gatech!udel!sbcs!usenet From: c506634@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Eric Edwards) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm Subject: Re: How much to connect to internet in the US? was Re: 19200bps Message-ID: Date: 15 May 91 05:08:17 GMT Sender: usenet@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Usenet poster) Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm Organization: Hackers without Hard Drives Lines: 20 In article <13028@pt.cs.cmu.edu> cactus@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu (Todd Masco) writes: > > In article c506634@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Eric Edwards) writes: > >I doubt the $150/semester that you are paying represents the true cost of > >your connection. Rather, it in an arbitrary figure arived at by the > >university. Most of the cost of your connection is paid by NSF with the > >university picking up the remainder. > > Uh, no. The NSF is not giving funding to the datacommunications > division of computing sevices. Pure research would be done by SCS > (School of Computer Science) facilities or some other group. Ah, but it is. The NSF allows computer services access to the NSFnet backbone at subsidized rates. The big cost is not your link to campus. That's only a few miles, max. It is the T1 lines that reach from coast to coast. They cost lots of money and have a limited capacity. Eric Edwards: c506634 @ "I say we take off and nuke the entire site Inet: umcvmb.missouri.edu from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." Bitnet: umcvmb.bitnet -- Sigourney Weaver, _Aliens_