www.stuff.co.nz just got peering at WIX....

-----Original Message----- From: David Zanetti [mailto:david.zanetti(a)catalyst.net.nz] Sent: Sunday, 6 February 2005 3:32 p.m. To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: [nznog] Peering stuff...

A certain provider of a large amount of content (which I can't name because I haven't got permission to announce this properly) is now peering on WIX. It's ~10-15M at peak.

Make sure your prefixes are being sent to the WIX route servers, and you're accepting at least 202.135.111.128/27 from them, and you'll get a nice short path to it instead of via Auckland.

Craig Spiers wrote:

Hi all,

What was that last week about someone advertising some new content on wix?

Our traffic to wix has more than doubled.. What was the content?

Cheers

Regards,

Craig - ConceptNET

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On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Craig Spiers wrote:

Yeah, saw that.. pretty serious amount of traffic flowing to wix now, we now (strangely enough) dump more traffic onto wix, than we do onto ape.. by almost double..!

Thats a little strange considering the population, largest ISPs and a fairly number of the large websites are based in Auckland. I doun't suppose anyone is doing traffic accounting by AS and would like to summarized where everything is coming/going? -- Simon J. Lyall. | Very Busy | Mail: simon(a)darkmere.gen.nz "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT.

On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 01:16:09PM +1300, Simon Lyall said:

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Craig Spiers wrote:

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Yeah, saw that.. pretty serious amount of traffic flowing to wix now, we now (strangely enough) dump more traffic onto wix, than we do onto ape.. by almost double..!

Just a gentle troll, I'm going to contest a couple of the assertions below.

Thats a little strange considering the population,

my reading of the population stats available at http://www.stats.govt.nz/tables/subnat-pop-estimates-tables.htm leads me to assert that about 2.1 million people in NZ live closer to Auckland than they do to Wgtn, and that about 1.9 million live closer to Wellington than to Auckland. The assertion that APE should naturally be significantly bigger than WIX because of population doesn't seem to be supported by the actual population figures.

largest ISPs and a fairly number of the large websites are based in Auckland.

There may well be large websites in Auckland, but if there are, they're not making much of an impact on APE. Right at this moment, Trademe is pumping more data into WIX than *any* ISP is into APE *or* WIX, and Stuff is not a hell of a lot further behind. Of course, I don't have full visibility - there are many direct-circuit bilateral arrangements between ISP's in Auckland that I can't see into. So, I'd posit that there is still significantly more Internet data flying around the Auckland CBD than around Wellington. I'm not necessarily convinced that will remain the case forever, though - traffic will cluster around the content providers.

I doun't suppose anyone is doing traffic accounting by AS and would like to summarized where everything is coming/going?

I have no accounting by ASN, but after a cursory look at the graphs, I'd suggest that it's skewed around Trademe, Stuff, and a bunch of smaller sites like Ritchies mad streaming radio stations. Cheers Si