[chrishacken]

I'd love to know where you can get a fiber circuit for $500/m. (And even if you can, then you probably can't compete with whoever's selling you that circuit anyway.) When we started we haggled considerably.. (had to sign a 20 year deal) and managed to get a 2G/10G circuit for $1,500/m. (A 1G circuit would have been $1200/m)

[mciancia]

Some places are cheaper than others, looking at this thread especially outside US.

In Poland you can get 1Gbps connection for 200USD/month and 5Gbps for ~600USD/m

[cavisne]

These are not fiber circuits, ie dedicated bandwidth, they are shared residential services.

[mciancia]

Those are not shared residential services, but normal business/ISP grade connection with SLA and so on.

[dicknuckle]

I guarantee it's not dedicated. it may go over a dedicated line at some point, but I'm in the layer2 business running GMPLS and shared switched traffic and you're either on GPON or some Metro Ethernet gear. you are sharing the neighborhood bandwidth on a metro switch, or you're sharing both light spectrum (GPON) AND the neighborhood bandwidth. you could have 100g but it's still shared.

[ApolloFortyNine]

Do you think there's a company advertising 5gbps at $600/m for residential services? Those are dedicated fiber prices, all be it very good ones (I'd question the peering outside of Europe).

[celicaraptor]

There's free.fr that sells 10G for 50EUR/month.

[ApolloFortyNine]

2G/10G? Normally I see it considerably cheaper for download bandwidth vs upload bandwidth, as your provider will just sell/reserve the upload bandwidth for servers, since servers use vastly more upload.

Of course, the rate you gave holds with the $1/mb I was assuming. You oversell bandwidth obviously.

[coryrc]

It's probably 2G sustained, 10G burst of some sort.