On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 10:24:31AM +1300, J S Russell wrote:
(1) My biggest problem with it, personally, is the lack of discrimination between domestic and international traffic. Callplus has a 100Mbit APE link, and a 10Mbit WIX link, as well as some other misc links (direct peering links to major players - CLIX, etc). These cost a tiny, teeny, pathetic fraction of the amount we spend on connectivity to the US tier-1 guys. So much so, in fact, that domestic usage doesn't even really factor into any of my provisioning.
They are not alone on this. My DSL with Telstra Australia is charged the same regardless of where I'm going. Same if its international Same if its Domestic (whatever that means in the no peering world of Australia) Same if its in the Telstra Network (news server etc) Same if its on the neighbouring modem on the dslam. Sad but true. I also blame the lack of a decient billing platform. Sure counting octets is easy, but it's a bit of a sledgehammer approach. I would have expected better from their architects. Dean (REMEMBER THIS IS NOT TELSTRACLEAR. THIS IS TELSTRA AUSTRALIA) - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog