News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on How a group of neighbors created their own Internet service. Parent comment

Re:How a group of neighbors created their own Internet service by jlgaddis on Sunday November 01, 2015 @09:41PM (#10489660)
Sure, bandwidth is cheap -- when you're buying tens of gigabits at a well-connected facility. The further from one of those you go, the more the price tends to go up. They're buying, tops, 100 Mbps, and having it sent to them via microwaves from a tower on the mainland.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:How a group of neighbors created their own Internet service by amazon_not on Monday November 02, 2015 @02:35AM (#10490540)
> Sure, bandwidth is cheap

Indeed it is, especially when you consider their fees and costs. Based on the information in the article their monthly free cash flow is $2150, so they certainly can afford their current bandwidth usage be it at $9 or $30 per Mbps without playing silly games and spying on their users.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:How a group of neighbors created their own Internet service by jlgaddis on Monday November 02, 2015 @04:08AM (#10490798)
Why would you assume that they're spying on their users?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:How a group of neighbors created their own Internet service by amazon_not on Monday November 02, 2015 @04:29AM (#10490857)
Because they implied so in the article, accurate as that may be or not.
[ Parent | on HN ]