smooth surfing Was: ...NAT users

[Richard Meeker]

Keep in mind that those Coulombs /second are all representing the depletion
of a certain type of fuel.  In the case of most of the people here in Kansas
City, that fuel is coal, and coal costs money.  The cable paid for the
infrastructure that they are using, but that was just putting it in.  Now
all they have to do is to maintain it, and there is nothing that states that
they have to make all their money back in the first year that they provide
the service.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
[mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of Duston, Hal
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 3:44 PM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: RE: smooth surfing Was: ...NAT users

JD Runyan [mailto:Jason.Runyan at nitckc.usda.gov] wrote:
> On Mon, Jan ,  at 02:35:15PM -0600, Duston, Hal wrote:
> >
> > Look at your gas bill, or your electricity bill, or your
> > water bill.  They all have _exactly_ this type of charge.
> > At least mine do.
> >
> Uh, no they don't.  You are expiring the resource.  More
> must be made, mided/drilled, or processed.  This is not
> the case with bandwidth.  Could someone tell me what you
> are expiring other than a nominal amount of electricity.
> Don't say bandwidth, bits, bits/sec etc.  Those are all
> measurements of capacity, potential, or flow. And do not
> represent something being used.  When I turn on my water
> tap I have used n Gallons of water.  I have never paid
> the water company to ensure that I get a water
> flow of n gallons/sec.

But what is the difference between dial-up, and DSL besides
capacity/bandwidth/latency?  Should all these cost the same?

And I _do_ pay the electric company to get by the
Coulombs/second at a specific Voltage (pressure).

Hal