Hi Tony, On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 22:42:31 +1300, Tony Wicks wrote
ah, guys, I hate to point out the blaringly obvious, but you can't just get 100x128k (or more) connections and stick them together and think you have 12 meg of real bandwidth.
Correct. 1 * 12mbit connection will be different from 100 * 128k connections. However look at the customer - a class of 35 students. How hard would it be to set up 35 VPN tunnels so that each student is using one each of 35 'shared' connections? I don't think this wouldn't be to hard to automate. I haven't put to much thought into it but I'd suggest that you could still improve on the performance of 1 adsl link if you're drawing off 35 sources.
It just doesn't work that way, there is no device that load balances 100 (or more !) http (or whatever) connections out lots of little pipes, and if there was it would be utterly chaotic and unworkable.
That comment just reads like a challenge to prove you wrong - never tell a can do kiwi "can't"! :)
Also remember, ISP's only survive because they can oversell the wholesale bandwith they buy.
You raise a very good point. All this discussion over the weekend has reminded me that ISPs are going to have to change an inovate. How are they doing in the Wellington CBD with CityLink as competition?
When you buy your 128k Jetstart connection, your are NOT buying 128k of Internet dedicated to you. If all the users used all of their bandwith ALL ISP's would go broke in a matter of months.
I've seen this debate time and time again and I'm left thinking that it's going to bite someone eventually if not sooner. I just read the ToC on my account and it doesn't say that I should not expect that I can use each of my two connections 100% of the time. Sure it says I only get 5gb of international data but nothing about my used of the connection for national data execpt that the data is not counted. Cheers DiG -- Don Gould The technology exists to give every home 10mbits per second for $10 per month! Ask not what your telephone company should do for you... ...but what you can do for your broadband community!