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Re: Acceptable DSL Speeds (ms based)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Thu May 5 03:39:39 2005

Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 10:39:47 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Luke Parrish <lukep@centurytel.net>,
	Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>, Andrew Lee <leea@grnoc.iu.edu>,
	nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200505050603.j45630KP016466@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

>
>Well... the *original* question was "What's an acceptable speed for DSL?", and
>the only *really* correct answer is "The one that maximizes your profit
>margin", balancing how much you need to build out to improve things against
>whatever perceived sluggishness ends up making your customers go elsewhere.  As
>
>  
>
Just host a google box and push-install http://webaccelerator.google.com/

Probably makes >95% of people happy and one or two content delivery 
companies wonder where they should go next.

Pete


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