[aclug-L] Re: High-speed server access

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 10:48:36AM -0600, Dale W Hodge wrote:
> > > For me, I decided to set up a domain for many of the same
> > reasons.  I could
> > > buy services elsewhere, but for about the same cost I could have control
> > > over it.  If I factored in what it would have cost to have two different
> > > accounts, it's probably cheaper.
> >
> > How are you connected?  The cheapest I can get is $180 a month dedicated
> > modem.
> 
> Boy, I feel luckier every day.  Living out in the boonies :) does have it's
> advantages.  I've got dedicated dial up for $60 a month + phone line cost.
> I could get ISDN for $180 a month, but that was too expensive.  I've been
> told that residential DSL will be $40 when it's available, but I haven't got
> the price for business DSL. I'm told it will be comparable to the dedicated
> dial-up cost.

--- neuralmatrix.org ping statistics ---
20 packets transmitted, 20 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 124.997/180.702/455.185 ms

--- phoenyx.net ping statistics ---
20 packets transmitted, 20 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 121.301/134.747/170.723 ms

A 50ms difference during non-peak times, when pinging from a SouthWind
server.  I'd be interested to see what the difference is like during peak
times--I'd venture to say that neuralmatrix.org would be MUCH slower then,
when sktc's upstream feed (which, BTW, apparantly goes through SouthWind,
according to a traceroute) is saturated.  That's asuming that sktc follows
the same pattern of most small ISPs, and does saturate their upstream feed.

BTW, you mentioned that they get a discount on their T3.... Why do they have
a T3?  Or are they multi-homed?  If they have a T3 to SouthWind, then that's
kinda dumb (unless it's cheaper than multiple T1s), because SouthWind
doesn't even have a full T3 worth of upstream bandwidth.


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