[11077] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: What is an "Internet reseller"?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miles R Fidelman)
Mon Mar 21 19:03:21 1994
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 08:50:46 -0500 (EST)
From: Miles R Fidelman <fidelman@civicnet.org>
To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9403190054.AA02443@swan-song.>
> >From: "Erik E. Fair" (Your Friendly Postmaster) <fair@apple.com>
>
> >Why do some of you persist in believing that handing out IP addresses
> >makes it qualitatively different? Bandwidth is bandwidth.
> >
> >This whole mess comes about because NSP's will not engineer their
> >networks to carry the total aggregate inputs - too expensive. So, they
> >guess at an average usage per customer, and then frantically restrict
> >anything that violates that assumption, with lots of handwaving.
>
If the issue really is bandwidth, its not immediately obvious to me that,
given a T1 Internet pipe, a collection of SLIP users eats up more
bandwidth than a large public access Unix host. So... can anybody supply
some real operational statistics on average traffic characteristics for:
i. some public access hosts
ii. some SLIP resellers
There's nothing like real data to liven up a religeous arguement :)
Miles
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