Good Morning Again Kind List People Is there possibly a better list on which to post this question (below)? I couldn't find one better than this, although I may have missed it as well. My apologies for the trivial nature of my request. I would be most-grateful to any insight any of you may be able to share.
Much Oblige, Sam On 9/3/2013 13:02, Sam wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I've been away from the WISP world for going on eight years now. But a > requirement for my job is allowing me to once again soon start to enjoy > all the fun. :) > > I have a question on provisioning. I notice many WISPs are offering > enormous bandwidth packages (enormous to me, since way back when, giving > someone a meg down/256k up was a lot). We used to over-provision by > about 7-1 or even 8-1 (I had three T-1s bonded using CEF, and that was > over $3k a month. Having only 4.5 MB to the world will force your hand > at that), used Squid caching boxes... anything we could to make the > available bandwidth go around. > > I'm curious as to what sort of circuit to the Internet is typical now - > I'm guessing that many WISPs are using 100MB to the world, or possibly > more. Offering 5MB down/1MB up, even with a 100MB circuit, using 4-1 or > 5-1 over-provisioning doesn't seem like it would take long before you'd > have people calling and complaining about not getting what the speed for > which they were paying. I'd be most-grateful for any guidance you may > want to share. > > Thanks, > Sam _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
