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Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Colm MacCarthaigh)
Sat Jan 6 09:37:33 2007

Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 14:35:25 +0000
From: Colm MacCarthaigh <colm@stdlib.net>
To: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
Cc: Robert Boyle <robert@tellurian.com>,
	Thomas Leavitt <thomas@thomasleavitt.org>, nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: colm@stdlib.net
In-Reply-To: <85CCA9B7-8F2A-4BCF-AADB-2F07672643D8@multicasttech.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 09:25:27AM -0500, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> Note that 220 MB per hour (ugly units) is 489 Kbps, slightly less  
> than our current usage.

Oh I should be clear too. We use SI powers of 10, just like for
bandwidth, not powers of two like for storage. We quote in Megabytes
because caps are usually in gigabytes, so it's more clear for users.

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Colm MacCárthaigh                        Public Key: colm+pgp@stdlib.net

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