Well personally, I would notice it. I'm not on jetstream, but jetstart,
and I do notice a difference in usage. My traffic for the past month
definetly leans towards the national (more than double international),
and so would any "smart" jetstream users, if I download something I find
a local mirror because I'm likely to get a faster connection, and that
makes even more sense with jetstream. However because there is no
differential at all, your average user will just download from the first
server they see. While most users are in the situation currently where
it would make little/no difference, it would definetly make a difference
to some users. Especially those using JetStream for connection to their
work VPN (isnt that how this thread started?)

Sascha

On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 23:17, Picanmix wrote:
<snip>
> Of course this is speculation, and a rather moot point. I can't see why
> people at home would notice differential pricing. Given that most traffic
> is international, the increase from 600 free Megabytes to 1000 free
> megabytes was far more financially attractive than simply reducing the
> cost of national traffic (at 10-20% national, even making
> national free it would only have freed up 60-120 international megabytes
> instead of 400). This may be a selfish view but the majority of jetStream
> users are in the same camp (even if they do not realise it)

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