[36796] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What does 95th %tile mean?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Fri Apr 20 09:22:26 2001
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 09:20:08 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>
To: Arnold Nipper <arnold@nipper.de>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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> ... you may easily deduct News traffic from being billed. BTW: tell me how
> do you exclude News Traffic if you count the 95th %ile?
Why should you? packets are packets; does your upstream provider charge
you less for news? Are you magically capable of moving news across your
own network cheaper than web traffic?
> Billing based upon total bytes transferred is IMHO verfy fair and attractive
> from the point of a customer's view and tends to be a nightmare from an ISP's
> pespective especially if you don't just count bytes but are looking at the
> IP-addresses involved.
Agreed.