[184430] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bandwidth estimation question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Sands)
Fri Oct 2 23:45:41 2015
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From: Tom Sands <tsands@rackspace.com>
To: JoeSox <joesox@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 03:45:36 +0000
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Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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There is no telling how big a flash crowd might be. I've see them jump in t=
he Gbps range and not Mbps.=20
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> On Oct 2, 2015, at 10:06 PM, JoeSox <joesox@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> I am trying to figure out if our hosting plan has enough bandwidth
> (currently at 15Mbps, our average webpage is 300kb).
> One of our members may win a peace prize for scientific work so there may
> be a media blitz.
> Does anyone know how much traffic a 'media blitz' (for lack of a better
> word) generates?
> I can bump it to 50Mbps but I am not even sure if that is enough.
>=20
> --
> Thank You, Joe
