Paul Haddon wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 12:00:48PM +1100, Peter Vogel wrote:
> > Can anyone give me a guess at how many users could be online
> > simulateously with the biggest Australian ISPs?
>
> A lot depends on the demographics of the ISP, but large size ISPs
> probably run in the vacinity of 15-30:1, ie: for every 15 users
> signed up, they have 1 modem port.
> So, if BigPond has, what? 100,000? 500,000? users, then they'd have
> approx 10,000-50,000 ports in use.
please note, telstra bigpond is a product!
the company in syndey is on australia
they are "small" and turn a "
very small profit" in a "highly competitive" market
they receive "no favours from telstra"
i found this out the hard way
Dean
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