----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Brooking" <jbrooking@actrix.co.nz>
To: "'Matthew'" <gossard@xtra.co.nz>; <adsl@unixathome.org>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 1:22 PM
Subject: RE: good choices for a jetstart isp?

>
>
> %> -----Original Message-----
> %> From: owner-adsl@unixathome.org [mailto:owner-adsl@unixathome.org] On
> %> Behalf Of Matthew
> %> Sent: Friday, 3 August 2001 12:49 p.m.
> %> To: adsl@unixathome.org
> %> Subject: Re: good choices for a jetstart isp?
> %>
> %> Xtra's now it's own company seperate from telecom (but still owned by
> %> them).
> %> As of July 1'st 2001. Also how do you mean 'when every isp has a
> glitch'
> %> ?
> %> The only glitch i can see that would affect every isp would be the
> leased
> %> lines from telecom the isp's may be using.
>
> Routing issues can effect all ISP's.

Telecoms routing ?

> %> I personally think xtra are fast because they are the biggest isp in
> NZ.
> %> Biggest = more bandwidth to support users, more users = more idle
> time.
> %> I've
>
> No it doesn't.

Well, i meant in general. A few years ago, i was speaking to an isp owner
about his isp, he had 512Kbit of international capacity, and a dialup pool
of 2000 modems :) (most were 56k). Heh, that's 10 users maxing out the line
at 56Kbit ;)
But you certainly can tell if an isp has oversold it's backbone capacity
*cough*ihug*cough*. I guess it is a tricky thing to balance out your
capacity to users ratio, even moreso with broadband..

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Received on Fri Aug 3 14:21:20 2001