Jeremy Charles <[email protected]> writes: > We're repeatedly faced with a situation where we purchase more > Internet capacity, our employees eventually oversubscribe it, we buy > more, lather, rinse, repeat. Currently, we're purchasing 40 Mbps of > Internet from our ISP, and the ISP's router guy tells me that his > router typically sees about 60 Mbps of traffic actually trying to come > to us. (We're mostly an eyeball network.)
You didn't say anything about your office size or its needs, maybe that's not such a crazy number. That said... When I was last faced with this, at a much smaller scale, getting additional bandwidth was cost prohibitive (bad location). We found that doing traffic shaping improved things substantially. The bandwidth was better balanced, and the large things left interactivity intact. Another trick I've heard is to post the top N visited sites, without the users. It generally conveys the message that the data is there, and people are monitoring it. ntop or similar ought be able to do this. seph _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
