Operators should be aware that due to increased demand on our
podcasting service, and the number of requests we've had to increase the
quality of the files, we'll be increasing the data rates of all files
offered from our US mirror.
At the moment all US files have the same names as NZ hosted files, but
are actually lower rates. Over the next 2 weeks this will change, with
the US server becoming a full mirror. The data rates of files will
double (from 24k to 48k) to match those hosted in NZ.
We've been able to do this because we have extra capacity in the US and
can serve the extra traffic at no additional cost to us.
At present NZ bound traffic from the US server sits at 10-15 Mb/s
during the day.
Local operators who do not peer with our NZ servers will see an
increase in international inbound traffic (about double) from the US
mirror over the next two weeks. After that you should allow for an
increase of 10-15% per week - our current growth rate.
Those who peer with our servers in New Zealand are not affected by this
change.
regards,
Richard Hulse
Radio NZ