On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Simon Blake wrote:
I can't really speak for other content providers, but for us, Xtra depeering a bunch of weeks back meant that our transit pipe to Auckland filled up, to the detriment of other services that are supposed to be using that bandwidth. The ftp server, webcams, streaming servers, and other knicknacks that we run could hardly be described as big earners - when we delivered most of the traffic on WIX, then we could afford to let the remainder leak up our transit link, but when our domestic transit link gets swamped delivering free stuff to other ISP's punters, then I can't easily justify upgrading it.
May I suggest you alter the banner on the US mirror, specifically this line:
the route servers and/or other ISPs at the APE or the WIX.
We (Maxnet, and I'm sure others) are peering with everyone, including RS', at APE, yet we don't see this network. Your policy decision is to announce it into WIX only - that's cool, but don't persecute or imply to customers that it's because "your ISP doesn't peer". I'll be talking to GGI about them not peering with you (thus making their domestic transit product useless - ditto TCL, however their domestic product is deliberately crippled from what I can tell); and we are also obviously investigating building into WIX, but there are obvious cost implications there - as I'm sure there are for other Auckland based ISPs. aj -- Network Operations || noc. +64.9.915.1825 Maxnet || cell. +64.21.639.706