[5141] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet II is coming...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Wed Oct 9 17:37:56 1996
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 14:27:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199610092120.RAA04869@river.biddeford.com>
On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, Fletcher E Kittredge wrote:
> 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?
It might be for video conferencing but not for ftp, http, smtp, nntp and
the various other normal protocols. But then, I don't do video
conferencing on the net. The closest I get to that is running some
RealAudio stuff occasionally and it works just fine.
Michael Dillon - ISP & Internet Consulting
Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049
http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com
