Okay.

Has anyone ever heard of the amount of transfer allotted per account in Gigabits.

how would you interperet this...

200GB Transfer/Mo????


My host is telling me that this is in fact 200Gigabits, not gigabytes, and most hosts go by gigabits...

Which means i pay $5/GBit overage, (200GBits = 25 Gigabytes)

Let me know, thank you.

MB

Originally posted by XTNet
My host is telling me that this is in fact 200Gigabits, not gigabytes, and most hosts go by gigabits...


I have heard of it, but I do not think this method is used as much as you were told. Most hosts quote prices in Gigabytes. However, your first clue that you were not paying for Gigabytes should have been the amount. 200 Gigabytes??? That's a whole lotta traffic!

I hope you get it all straightened out, XTNet!

200gb is a lot per month, but that is how much band my site transfers..

And for 200GB (Gigabits) i am paying about $500/mo which sounds about right... $2.5/gigabyte!

I never thought that this would mean i had to pay $4800 for 200gigabytes

To help clear your confusion,

1 byte = 8 bits

so 200 gigabits = (200/8) 25Gigabytes

Still that is a hell of bandwidth !

Hope this helps ;)

I have never heard of a web host quoting traffic limits in Gigabits/month before. Either gigabytes/month or megabits/second (for *big* sites) are common, but gigabits/month is definitely not common.

Originally posted by cperciva
I have never heard of a web host quoting traffic limits in Gigabits/month before. Either gigabytes/month or megabits/second (for *big* sites) are common, but gigabits/month is definitely not common.

Gigabytes per month I understand. All traffic measured in bytes over a 1 month period ( gross total ).

How does Megabits per second work? all bits per second ( gross total )?

or are we talking bandwidth demand and the pricing structure of the pipe?

-Michael

In my opinion, your host is certainly inexperience or has no knowledge on what is being offered in the industry.

If a host offer 200 GB a month, it would definitely be in GIGABYTES and NOT Gigabits. Not sure if your host knows the differences between Gigabits and Gigabytes.

May I know which host is offering $5 per Gigabits ? If he knows what they ave out there, I would say people are selling pipes and bandwidth measured in Kbps, Mbps and Gbps (if you can consume this much). For a dedicated connection of 256 Kbps , it is approximately 80 Gigabytes per month assuming you utilise it 100%. So, 1 Megabit is about 320 Gigabytes of transfer per month.

So, if they are selling by the Gigabits and not Gigabytes, like you say $5 per Gigabit , that means he is selling approximately 3200 Gigabytes for $5 ?

By the way, Edwow, when measure using Bits measurement....it means per second. So, for a 200 Gbps pipe, it can push 200 X 3200 GB of bandwidth, totalling up to approximately 640000 Gigabytes of transfer.

Hosts do offer Gigabit connection, but how many are capable of offering and how many are capable of consuming 1 Gigabit connection ? It's more than 22 T3 lines. Not many people can consume that much.

Hope this helps to clear your curiousity. :)

Also, if you measure in terms of Gigabits per month,
if $5/ Gigabits...............that means $5 for 125 MB of transfer. And US 40 for 1 Gigabyte of transfer ?

That's daylight robbery !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Your host is simply trying to make some money out of people who have no knowledge in this. Trying to try his trick through that Bit and Byte thing.

I can assure you that most hosts here, except your host, is offering Bandwidth in terms of Gigabyte and not Gigabit when it comes to monthly aggregate usage. Also, file sizes are in Bytes, Kilobytes, Megabytes and Gigabytes.... not in BITS . Perhaps you can ask your host to offer space in terms of MegaBits as well ?

XTNet, are you paying $500 for 25 Gigabytes of transfer ?
Well, I can get you at least 300 Gigabytes of transfer for less than $500.

Don't you all know, it is just one big sly marketing ploy....

They make you think you getting a lot of bandwidth, for those people that don't know much about the industry.

Man being sneaky like that, I wouldn't be with them.... NO TRUST!

It's not robbery. You can charge what you want. It's like selling gas in liters instead of gallons, but overpriced. I don't agree with it, but it isn't robbery.

I honestly feel that if someone says that, it is ment to deceive you. So I just would not do buisness with them. Thats another good reason to read contracts.

This is just like DirecPC, I always thought they meant 400KB down, well it meant 400 kilobits down not kilobytes. Boy was I disatisfied.

But I can't wait, or well their new product from Hughes, DirecWay.
And I think I read it right:

"The DW1000, in conjunction with a Personal Earth Station, is an enterprise solution that allows for two-way broadband communications.

The DW1000 is designed to provide multimegabit outbound speeds to remote locations as an overlay approach to the existing terrestrial frame relay network. The DW1000 supports a high-speed broadband receive only channel rate which is scalable from 1Mbps up to 45Mbps. "

:)

http://www.hns.com/products/direcway_terminals/dw1000/dw1000.htm