Re: [nznog] Google and MaxNet

On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 12:21:19PM +1200, Cameron Kerr wrote:

Is this a trick question? The answer, naturally, is money, more specifically, it is far cheaper (essentially free) to serve something from an ISPs local cache than to request it all over again. This way, the ISP `earns' (saves) money, plus it has the very real potential to be faster when hit from cache (though I doubt that is the primary motivation for using transparent proxying in an ISP environment.

Surely if you're charging different rates for national and international (and local to the ISP) traffic, you're not earning or saving much though, right? Unless of course you're charging content from your cache as international traffic, but surely that would be illegal ... Richard