Craig,

When you log in using your Jetstream connection, Telecom looks at
your login, more specifically at the portion after the '@'. On
Jetstream, what this does,
among other things is decide which ISP to send your traffic to, and if
the stuff after the @
is jetstreamgames.co.nz it will send your traffic to that part of the
network.

With Jetstart things are a bit different. When you log in to Telecom,
among other things,
your port number is checked against a database to see if you should be
rate limited or
not AND whether to ignore all traffic you generate under that login or
not. One example
of this is the jetstreamgames.co.nz login.

To answer someone else's question no, it's not possible for an ISP to
push a different
value back to the RAN in order to increase the limit you're rated to.

Chris

>>> "Craig Box" <crb@ihug.co.nz> 03/01/01 04:26PM >>>
OK - someone explain this to me in a cute, easy manner.

I am being told that my port to Jetstart is rate limited at Telecom to
128kbit.
Explain then, in simple terms, why I can log into the Jetstream Games
context at 3.3Mbit, if _logins have nothing to do with it_! (I'm not
close
enough for 8mbit.)

I've read all the messages and still don't make much sense of it.
Maybe I
need to read them again.

BTW, on the topic, does this make it possible to order Jetstart at
$30/month and not put any ISP on top of it at all, and just get
Jetstream
Games!

(Oh, and when quoting, please be relevant.. I am sick of digests that
are 4
times larger than they need be, even if my traffic _is_ flatrate ;)

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Received on Thu Mar 1 16:44:53 2001