Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc!sl
From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: FYI -- PC-P Price "Increase"
Message-ID: <2139@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jan 89 02:38:30 GMT
References: <7342@chinet.chi.il.us> <824@kimbal.UUCP> <7354@chinet.chi.il.us> <158@usl-pc.usl.edu> <7428@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Wimsey Associates, Vancouver, BC.
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In article <7428@chinet.chi.il.us> patrick@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick A. Townson) writes:
>In article <158@usl-pc.usl.edu>  writes:
>>
>Telenet rates: 30 x $1 = $30
>               30 x $4.50 = $135.00   Total 60 hours = $165.00
>
>AT&T Reach Out  60 x 7.10 = $426.00 
>

>Who comes up looking great?


>Maybe, maybe not. There have been disputes on the Net Exchange about the
>throughput rate for as long as I have read it. Not everyone shares your
>statistics. You make a good point though, however as I said above, Telenet

For uucp the *absolute* best I ever get under 220 cps.

My only regular long distance contact is uunet, I consistently get over 840
cps for large files (>30kb).

So assuming best stat's for PC Pursuit (which most correspondents declare as
impossible to get) and only average stat's for Trailblazer. Basically about as 
close to 4 to 1 as you can get (aside, I only talk to Trailblazer at 9600bps, 
when I switch over to the 386 stats go up a fair bit).

This gives us a weight cost of 165*4 or $660 for the same amount of data.

Who comes up looking great, indeed!

And if you use the stats that other people have posted and assume a 19.2 bps
Trailblazer connection there isn't any comparison. 

I would go so far as to say that for bulk data transport it is virtually
impossible for any profitable X.25 network pricing scheme to beat a 
Trailblazer on Long Distance dialup.

-- 
Stuart.Lynne@wimsey.bc.ca {ubc-cs,uunet}!van-bc!sl     Vancouver,BC,604-937-7532