Alastair Johnson wrote:
> This is getting REALLY offtopic.
>
> Keith & Deby wrote:
>
>> Im no techie...I do know how to identify a problem.
>> So Joel is a techie student or something, no doing a BT. What is
>> offered is
>> not suitable for his needs. And At a Guess he is not the only student
>> that
>> may have these requirements. To go to what business s get he would need a
>> 2nd student loan.
>
>
> I personally would be surprised if many customers had these requirements
> at all. Remember, the average subscriber to this mailing list is the
> exception rather than the rule.
>
> At my previous job (ISP, medium-large), our traffic flows were certainly
> extremely assymetric from the DSL network. The average customer
> uploaded very little traffic.
>

I agree. I work for The University of Auckland and we are a significant
provider of content but our usage is still highly assymetric in favour
of in bound traffic. About 4:1 and that would be much higher if you
subtracted the output of all our servers...

Personally I have a 2Mbps circuit at home and I would be quite happy
with a 256 or 384Kbps up link which would be adequate for running a
small web site for personal interests. I can live with 128K if I have
to :) If you are serious about wanting hosting then get it from a
hosting service. My 17 year old has just brought a hosting package that
included 20GB of traffic for $35NZ from Dreamhosting in the US.

Russell

Russell

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