Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!mks!egisin
From: egisin@mks.UUCP (Eric Gisin)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Connecting to the Internet
Summary: lower fees for end nodes
Message-ID: <742@mks.UUCP>
Date: 1 Apr 89 01:10:57 GMT
References: <221@moegate.UUCP> <1989Mar29.161607.11999@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Distribution: ont
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
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In article <1989Mar29.161607.11999@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>, molnar@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Tom Molnar) writes:
> 	ii) End node membership.
> 	    An organisation must still pay the $15k/yr membership fee,
> 	    but no longer has to purchase a Cisco router.  All that is
> 	    required is to find an organisation already connected to
> 	    Onet who is willing to act as a gateway.  The end
> 	    node will have to cover all communications costs.  Note

Onet should consider reducing the cost for end nodes to $1K-$5K,
based on the size of the organization. Almost all the revenue
from end nodes could be put into improving the backbone links,
and with 10-20 new nodes you could probably upgrade the backbone
links from 19.2K to 56K/sec. Everyone would benefit from that.