i don't think it's the backbone - you have to share your bandwidth with everyone
on your router - so if the guy down the street is running an ftp site that
will hog much of the upstream bandwidth. this is why they started metering
internal traffic.
optus can get away with more bandwidth because at present they have less
customers. i doubt it will last...
On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 02:29:18PM +1100, Andrew Macks wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, David Zverina wrote:
>
> > > Traffic on BigPond Advance Freedom is limited to 400Kbit inbound, 128Kbit
> > > outbound.
> > >
> > > Optus@Home is 2Mbit (+?) inbound and 128Kbit outbound.
> >
> > I dont think that's nowhere near as relevant as how much bandwidth per
> > (active) subscriber is available to the internet backbone.
>
> Which is why Optus@Home can get away with more bandwidth, because they
> have @Home supporting them.
>
> The Telstra backbone cannot withstand much more traffic (certainly not at
> levels of 2Mbit per customer) and quite frankly I'm surprised they even
> did this.
>
> Andrew.
>
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