[5140] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet II is coming...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fletcher E Kittredge)
Wed Oct 9 17:30:51 1996
To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 09 Oct 1996 12:13:03 PDT."
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Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 17:20:17 -0400
From: Fletcher E Kittredge <fkittred@biddeford.com>
On Wed, 9 Oct 1996 12:13:03 -0700 (PDT) Michael Dillon wrote:
> My ISP has a 10Mbps fibre ATM circuit to BCNet in Vancouver that was
> installed in Aplril 1995. From there it connects to CA*Net which has a T3
> into MCI Seattle as well as links to the East where more T3's head south
> to MCI. The T3's were T1's until Sept 1995 at which point there was a
> small improvement in speed at times.
So a 10Mbps fiber ATM circuit translates, after the cell tax and
packet stredding, to 6Mbps on a real link. Is this not slow enough to
be a bottleneck?
regards,
fletcher
