Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!peregrine!ccicpg!turnkey!stanton!donegan
From: donegan@stanton.TCC.COM (Steven P. Donegan)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: FYI -- PC-P Price "Increase"
Summary: Data Transfer Economics
Message-ID: <104@stanton.TCC.COM>
Date: 12 Jan 89 14:11:16 GMT
References: <7342@chinet.chi.il.us> <824@kimbal.UUCP> <7354@chinet.chi.il.us> <7428@chinet.chi.il.us>
Organization: Stanton Public Domain Systems, Stanton, Ca.
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In article <7428@chinet.chi.il.us>, patrick@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick A. Townson) 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?
> 

Using a Telebit Trailblazer over AT&T's service you get about 4 times as
much data transfered per hour when compared to Telenet's PC-Pursuit.

60 hours at 2400 baud on PC-Pursuit = $165.00
15 hours at 9600 baud on AT&T       = $106.50

Saving about 58.50 per month - a clear winner for operations costs.

Telenet throughput, even on a good day, does not really reach the 240 bytes
per second your 2400 baud modem is capable of. The Trailblazer often exceeds
960 bytes per second (on dial-up's to Singapore from LA we often exceed
11000 bits/sec or 1100 bytes/sec).

13.2 hours at 11000 baud on AT&T    = $93.72 - saving 71.28 per month or
more depending on how bad the throughput on PC-Pursuit really is :-)


-- 
Steven P. Donegan                 These opinions are given on MY time, not
Area Telecommunications Engineer  Western Digital's
Western Digital Corp.
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