[118067] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Does Internet Speed Vary by Season?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Mon Oct 12 10:04:45 2009
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: vandry@TZoNE.ORG (Phil Vandry)
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:04:05 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <E3049747-FB4C-48E4-86CD-6B93554D2956@TZoNE.ORG> from "Phil
Vandry" at Oct 12, 2009 03:08:52 AM
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> On 2009-10-11, at 19:22 , Joe Greco wrote:
> > (*) In the late 1990's, I heard the most astonishing claims made by
> > a new
> > entrant into the Milwaukee ISP market, about how some of the "other"
> > ISP's
> > "shared" lines between customers and this decreased your speeds.
> > They had
> > no clue who I was, so I engaged their technical person for a while
> > who set
> > out to convince me that other ISP's really _did_ do this mythical
> > line-
> > sharing - multiple modems to one port. Until I started talking
> > about the
> > technical aspects, that is.
>
> Not so mythical. Around the same time period, we found out about an
> ISP offering always-on ISDN BRI service for such a low price that it
> could not possibly make sense. We wondered how they could make ends
> meet at that rate until we found out how they did it. They daisy
> chained multiple customers' BRI lines together, using the second B
> channel from one customer to connect the next customer down the line.
> Once, one of their customers switched to our service and we
> reconfigured their router (a legitimate action: both router and BRI
> line belonged to the customer). Who knows how many downstream
> customers we broke by doing that.
A virtual ISDN party line! Cool! :-)
... JG
--
Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
"We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I
won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN)
With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
