Re: OT: saturating a T1 with e-mail

[Stan Horwitz]

On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Eric Dahnke wrote:

> 
> Someone will scold me for this post, but would appreciate any thoughts:
> 
> A T1 would be ~ 80% utilized passing 22,000msgs/hr if the average msg
> size was 23K.

I would not bet on it. The average message size is not an indicator of
network traffic. For example, if you pushed two messages over the line,
one that's 2 gig and one that's 1 meg, the average would mean very little.