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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Internet service providing-which OS?
Date: 23 Jul 1995 01:21:36 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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References: <3ue5qa$ain@panix.com> <3upgga$oqo@usenet.interramp.com> <3upmq7$11f@agate.berkeley.edu> <3urba1$cgl@blob.best.net>
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In article <3urba1$cgl@blob.best.net>, Matt Dillon <dillon@best.com> wrote:
>    Gentlemen.  If I remember correctly, ftp.cdrom.com is sitting on
>    a BARRNET T3 backbone and, on average, pulls about 6 MBytes / sec
>    in bandwidth.  That's on the order of 4 T1 equivalences!

It's on the T3 backbone, but is connected to same via a 10mb/sec ethernet
connection which it pretty much maxes out.  1 T1 = 1.54 Mb, yes?  So
saying that 10Mb = 7 T1s is not that poor of an approximation.

					Jordan