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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!sgigate.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!avondale.demon.co.uk!avondale.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: jfhall@avondale.demon.co.uk (John F Hall) Newsgroups: demon.ip.support,demon.tech.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Batch FTP and Web Pages Date: 4 Jul 1996 01:32:03 +0100 Organization: - Lines: 35 Message-ID: <4rf3e3$25i@avondale.demon.co.uk> References: <31D4AA3A.BC0@www.play-hookey.com> <31D87436.7C7F@www.play-hookey.com> <836295557snz@dsl.co.uk> <4rcr6v$dh@anorak.coverform.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: avondale.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: avondale.demon.co.uk In article <4rcr6v$dh@anorak.coverform.lan>, Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> wrote: >So, what you're saying is that demon - who recently were applying for >another class B address space (about 65000 users currently?) have decided >in their infinite wisdom to invest in a T3? Well, bully for them. Let's >see, 45,000,000 bits / 65,000 users = 692 *bits* each. Woooooffff ! >I'll get out there and start my 86 byte/sec download now ! Ok, maybe >that's a bit unfair. They havn't got the capacity to have everyone >connected at once. Let's say they allow 6000 of us in at once, what's >that, about 937 bytes per second ? In fact, this *wonderful* T3 will >allow a staggering 1607 28.8k users to get max throughput. I'd better >rush home and get in there first. What a load of twaddle! Don't you think it would be better to divide the the number of Demon *modems*, not the number of *users* - I don't think the users not logged in use all that much bandwidth. Secondly only a minority of users want to connect to the US - that might be *your* preference, but others have other priorities, some read news, some log into University accounts, some email to their branch offices, etc. There are *other* routes out of Demon, why base all your calculations on one and ignore the others? Don't you think Demon have *measured* the traffic on each route? >We at Demon have only *one* route to the states. That's wrong too. >It should have been a T3 by mid 1994. And that. -- John F Hall jfhall@avondale.demon.co.uk CompuServe: 100016,1210