By midnight, providing the bandwidth challenged UseNet feeds again.
WebUseNet will make an announcement of our business deal with Cidera in the
near future. We are glad we were able to help save this important resource
on the Internet.
Dwight Ringdahl
WebUseNet
Yes I just heard this from Doug too, if anyone need a quick fix for usenet
feeds, email me directly. I'll set you up and help you til we can come up
with a business solution.
Dwight
-Original Message-
From: Jeffrey Wheat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 5:05
If I were Level3, I'd give them (cogent) a bigger peering pipe, and take the
money from the larger, more stable company AOL... Might not be common
peering sense, but damn good business sense
>> Further, if L3/Cogent are settlement-free and both parties are interested
>> in growing the size of
I don't really think that a free peering session seems like a 'sales job'
and I don't agree that the original use/protocol of the internet would be
off topic.
As for Satellite feeds... Show me a feed provider who's satellite pushes
more than 45mb/s which is now only 60% of a full feed. Yesterday
>> But they let them
>> all go. So ones the chef(s) were out the door, who maintains it?
>> It's not exactly a status quo situation. It was treated in house as,
>> well we have the peering so why do we need all these pain in the butt
>> expensive guys?
We could use another one or two of t
If anyone has a usenet server and would like a feed let me know. (FYI
current full feed is 72mb/s) We also can peer bandwidth at any of our sites
which you can see at http://www.webusenet.com/peering.html (PAIX ATL and
Palo Alto are too)
Thanks
Dwight
>> Thing is if your connection is completely full one way, it'll effect
>> traffic the other way too.
My thoughts are Cogents primary customers are sites that are looking for
very cheap bandwidth, which most likely is adult content. Therefore they
would look more like a content provider than a t
