[ELECTRON] broadband costs

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Sounds good to me. Document could potentially give something once we
hear of funding say £50 pa

Paula

On 27/04/2009, Simon Yuill <simon at lipparosa.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I have spoken with the the Phone Co-op to get details on what would be
>  the best broadband package for us.
>
>  The one that looks best value is one for small businesses they offer
>  called 'Business Saver 10':
>
>         http://www.thephone.coop/business/soho.html
>
>  Costs are:
>
>         £19 + VAT a month for line rental and broadband
>         £99 + VAT for line installation
>         £46.59 + VAT for a ZyXel 660H 4 Port Ethernet Router/Hub, preconfigured
>  with firewall (this is optional, if we can provide our own ADSL2+
>  modem-router)
>         no setup fee
>
>  Phone calls are charged separately, depending on usage. The call charges
>  are:
>
>         1.98p per minute - peak local
>         1.99p per minute - peak national
>         0.85p per minute - offpeak local
>         1.3p per minute - offpeak national
>         1.26p per minute - weekend national
>         11p per minute - peak to all mobile networks
>         8.5p per minute - offpeak to all mobile networks
>
>  We have to commit to a 12 month initial contract. We can pay either in
>  monthly installments by direct debit or in a lump sum in advance.
>
>  Although the total monthly usage is much lower than the cheapest
>  domestic package (Anytime Saver gives 40MB compared to the 10GB for the
>  business package), the upload speed for business customers is much
>  higher than for home users. Upload speed for business is 1024kbps
>  compared to 448Kbps for home users.
>
>  10GB may not sound much but provided we are not downloading loads of
>  video content it's quite a lot. There is a calculator here to help
>  estimate how much would be used:
>
>  http://www.thephone.coop/residential/broadband/capacity-calculator.html
>
>  Assuming in one month that people send 2,000 standard emails, 1,000 with
>  images, spend 3 hours day surfing, watch 200 video clips, download 10
>  pieces of software and make 2 big downloads, then that all comes to:
>  5.09 GB, well within the 10GB limit.
>
>
>  The cost for the first year would be:
>
>         line installation:      £99.00
>         ADSL modem              £46.59
>         1 year's broadband      £228.00
>         total (exc VAT):        £373.59
>
>         VAT at 17.5%:           £65.38
>         total (inc VAT):        £438.97
>
>
>  If we are going to raise funds for this, it might be sensible to try and
>  raise enough to cover 2 years broadband usage, which would add an
>  additional £267.90 (£228.00 + VAT). So the total for setup and 2 years
>  broadband would be:
>
>         2 years (inc VAT):      £706.87
>
>  I had a chat with Francis McKee, the director of CCA about this, and
>  asked if they would be willing to chip in if we shared the broadband
>  with them. This would be only for use in the Artist's Flat and the
>  gallery spaces, not part of the public wifi access or CCA office usage.
>  The Artist's Flat and gallery are two areas where the CCA sometimes need
>  a more specialised internet access for artist doing web-based work (such
>  as Martine Crispo who some of you might have met last year). Usage from
>  these two sources would vary depending on what kind of artists and
>  exhibitions they had in and is unlikely to be constant throughout the
>  year. Francis has said that they would be interested in contributing -
>  although final decision does not rest with him. Now that I have some
>  concrete costs I will get back in touch and see what they say.
>
>  In terms of making this happen at a practical level we have potentially
>  3 sources of funding this:
>
>         - voluntary donations from groups and individuals currently using the
>  space who want to make use of the broadband
>         - a possible contribution from the CCA
>         - money raised from fund-raising event
>
>  Now that we have some concrete figures it would be good to hear from
>  those who would be up for donating so we can get a sense of how much we
>  have there.
>
>  Also, in terms of getting it off the ground sooner rather than later one
>  way to approach it might be to pull together enough for the basic
>  install plus 3 months broadband, this would be: £238.04. Then raise the
>  rest from CCA and the fund-raising event.
>
>  So what kind of fund-raising event? Well, we had a meeting last week and
>  I think Dan is going to get back to the list about that.
>
>
>  To get things started however, it would be good to get some feedback
>  from those interested in us having broadband.
>
>
>  best wishes
>  Si
>
>
>
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Paula Larkin
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Document 7
Glasgow, October 2009