>I can pay Layer3 or HE $0.50 per mbps and get 200mbps to my server for the same price. I find this unlikely, or at the very least, exaggerated If you buy sev

>I can pay Layer3 or HE $0.50 per mbps and get 200mbps to my server for the same price. I find this unlikely, or at the very least, exaggerated If you buy several gigabits from he.net, you can get around $0.50 per mbps. As of last year, for the same quantities, you are looking at about 6x that for Level3 (I assume you mean Level3, not Layer3) Level3 is probably the most expensive major bandiwdth provider you are likely to encounter (they also have the largest network... if I was going to spend three bucks a megabit, and to be clear, I'm not, I'd spend it with Level3.) He.net is one of the cheapest, and only approaches "largest network" if you are counting IPv6 peers. If your provider is charging you the same for both, most likely they have a he.net link for normal traffic, and then a burstable Level3 link, and they only use the latter as a backup. (Also note, the pricing I'm talking about is only valid for the "one to five gigabits" level... bandwidth is one of those things that gets dramatically cheaper as you buy more. Dramatically.) Also interestingly, if you want comcast in the datacenter... their pricing is closer to Level3 than it is to He.net. Even if you want to do 'paid peering' and only want to send data to/from comcast over the link. (Of course, no sane person would send traffic other than the traffic to/from comcast customers out said comcast link.) (Of course, none of this has anything to do with your point, but someone was wrong on the internet, etc...)