Re: Cogent for ISP bandwidth

["Derrick H." <nanog () lacutt com>]

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 06:49:34PM -0400, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "A. Pishdadi" <apishdadi () gmail com>
>
> > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Nicolai
> > <nicolai-nanog () chocolatine org>wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 09:38:34PM -0500, Ameen Pishdadi wrote:
> > > > No way they stack up against level3 or any of the other 4 big tier
> > > > 1s
> > > > but if you throw them in a blend with level3 there shouldn't be
> > > > any
> > > > issue and I wouldn't pay more the .75 cents a meg for a gig
> > >
> > > That's $7.50 per 1000mbps. Sign me up!
>
> > last time i checked .75 x 1000 = 750
>
> .75 dollars times 1000 = $750, yes.
>
> But that's not what was written.  *That* was .75 cents, which, yes, 
> comes out to $7.50/gbps.

Reminds me of the infamous "Verizon Math":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2isSJKntbg

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=verizon+math&oq=verizon+math&aq=f&aqi=g6&aql=&gs_l=youtube.3..0l6.200.1851.0.2224.12.12.0.0.0.0.153.1126.6j6.12.0...0.0.HdrCiFAtWK0


Derrick

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> -- jr 'and please don't make me fix your quoting' a
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