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

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Sat Jan 6 10:05:54 2007

In-Reply-To: <20070106143525.GA5705@dochas.stdlib.net>
Cc: Robert Boyle <robert@tellurian.com>,
	Thomas Leavitt <thomas@thomasleavitt.org>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 10:02:28 -0500
To: colm@stdlib.net
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu



On Jan 6, 2007, at 9:35 AM, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote:

> 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.

A man after my own heart...

> We quote in Megabytes
> because caps are usually in gigabytes, so it's more clear for users.
>
> -- =20
> Colm MacC=E1rthaigh                        Public Key: colm=20
> +pgp@stdlib.net


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