Truth about Bandwidth

Truth about Bandwidth

Everyone is trying to get a part of the Internet pie and that is what free enterprise is all about. But just like in every other business, then are those in business who will sell you something but provide you something else or lessor quality or in the case of the Internet quantity. We are seeing that happen with all Internet service but never so brazen as with ISDN Internet dialup services.

Our ArkansasUSA ISDN service is more costly than most of our competitors and there is a reason for that. We assume that the reason you move to ISDN is because you are tired of a slow modem connection. We also assume that you want what you are paying for. We assume that if you purchase a single channel of 64 K bandwidth back to the Internet or a 128K dual channel bandwidth back to the Internet, you really want that speed back to the Internet and not just to our local Internet network, and that is what we sell. This is not true with many of the cheaper or less expensive ISDN dialup services.

Think of Internet as a highway. If the speed limit is 70 MPH you want to travel at that speed. But we all have been on these highways when they were so overloaded that one could not travel 35 MPH. Now lets apply this to the Internet.

The Internet is a connection of networks by special phone lines that can move information at high speed. Internet Service Providers pay for these special phone lines based on speed or bandwidth we think we need. If I want 128K (two lane highway) then I pay a price based on 128K if I want or need a 45 MB (eight lane highspeed highway) , I pay for that at a very high cost. Just like on our real highways these phone lines or Internet Highways are designed to support a certain amount of traffic and when that amount is exceeded then the real speed begins to slow done. In other words an ISP can purchase a connection to the Internet and over sell it and when it slows to a crawl he can blame it on the Internet, after all we all have been told that the Internet is over crowded. But that is a lot of bull, there is plenty of bandwidth on the Internet for those who are willing to pay for it. ISPs can purchase all and as much as they want, but they can do that and sell you those cheap connections.

Now are you getting the picture? If you want a ISDN connection, anyone can sell you that at any number of great prices, but if you want an ISDN connection that is going to take you beyond your providers network and out onto the Internet at true ISDN speeds even during peak times, then your ISP is going to have to pay his Internet Backbone provider more money for a bigger "highway" and that means it is going to cost him more and he is going to have to pass that cost on to you.

That is what we do at ArkansasUSA. We sell you the bandwidth that you think you are buying from other ISPs at those super low prices, but we must sell it for what it cost us plus our cost of doing business. For most of you who are not on our service the real reason the Internet is so slow and your download connection drops or time out to distant sites often is because most ISPs are not providing the bandwidth that users are paying for.

By the way, this same overselling and selling at rock bottom prices has been going on with modem connection for years. That is why our modems rates are normally more costly than others because we have been providing our customers the bandwidth that they are paying for on their accounts. If we could get all ISPs to do the same, the Internet would speed up considerable, even for modem users.

The Backbone Provider's recommend rate of resell is for every MB of bandwidth an ISP purchases, the ISP can resell it 3 times without seeing a drop in network performance. Based on the cost of some dialup accounts, the math tells us that many providers are reselling their bandwidth by as much as 10 to 20 times or way beyond the recommend rate recommend by the Internet Backbone Providers.

You do the math, an ISP can not stay in business by selling a true single channel 64K bandwidth ISDN for $20 a month when based on the 3 times recommended ratio the wholesale connection cost charged by the Backbone Provider to the ISP is more than $43 per month. One might say, then why don't the Internet Backbone Providers prevent ISPs from overselling their bandwidth, it is a free market world and it is the buyer who must be informed and make good choices. That is what we are attempting to do by providing the consumer with this information.

You can be assured that when you buy a connect to the Internet for The Net Connection, Inc. you are getting the bandwidth to the Internet that you are paying for, after all we can always buy more.

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