optus routers are much larger than the telstra equiptment. So that means
more traffic, lots more. So i think they will discourage Servers.
Carlo
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From: "ENTERforNone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2000 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Telstra slashes 20pc off Advance cable prices
> 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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