[55580] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: shuttle flash crowd statistics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Sat Feb 1 21:02:01 2003
From: "Jack Bates" <jbates@brightok.net>
To: "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 20:00:36 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
From: "Sean Donelan"
> Historically providers have been reluctant to provide that level of
> detail concerning traffic levels. A few providers, generally smaller
> ones, do make MRTG graphs available. Once in a while a provider will
> announce they had X Peta/Terrabytes of traffic for some time period.
> But most prefer measurements which can not be correlated with revenue
> (e.g. packet drops, latency, jitter, availability, etc).
>
You mean a lot like when IE 5 first came out? As a result, I got the
priviledge of shutting one of my providers off. :) It's sad when a 3Mb pipe
is prefered over a 12Mb pipe; even sadder when it's actually faster. Glad I
learned my lessons before I really learned the meaning of bandwidth. :)
-Jack
