On 23/02/2006 11:02 a.m., Simon Lyall wrote:
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Simon Byrnand wrote:
So strictly speaking you could only make a broadband comparision with English speaking countries who source most of their content from overseas...or at minimum check the national/international traffic ratios to see if they're comparable...
Does anyone have some current ratios ( Int/Nat/Internal ISP) for NZ?
I would assume International has been steadly increasing for various reasons.
I'd be surprised if that's true. NZ-based content has been increasing over the past 5 years. I don't think it's even relevant though, is it? Internet bandwidth is the ISP's responsibility, not Telecom's. Telecom's DSL caps are there to protect their network, which has insufficient capacity to support real broadband (hence the 148:1 contention ratio on the new plans - basically they are increasing the speed you pay for, while the actual speed you'll get will go down!). The caps have nothing to do with Internet data or where it comes from - that's just a red herring introduced by Ms Gattung to deflect attention from the real question, which she didn't want to answer. -Simon