Joe Abley wrote:

... the important difference being that in Australia they have a regulator.

Is that the same regulator whose most notable effort was the creation of "The Gang of Four" peering club? -- Juha

Hi, Thanks to all for responses - some quite interesting ;) I'll start some investigations now, you have all been quite helpful. I will keep my eye on this list, who knows - I may be useful for something in here. Cheers, Ev- On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 16:55:06 +1200, jfp wrote:

Hi, Evan, since nobody has piped in, I'll say hello.

For a list of the suppliers you could look at the local peering exchanges. You probably got the NZNOG summrary when you joined, otherwise I enclose a copy.

...

DSL in NZ seems quite interesting - up to 8Mbit/s according to the Xtra website? I take it this is not gaureenteed and on distance basis as well. I notice that you utilise full GDMT here - not GDMT.Lite as we do. Without moving off the Telstra DSLAMs I am lucky if I can get 1.5Mbit/s downstream and 256k up.

Yes, well...

DSL in NZ can do 8Mb physically, but after about 5 minutes use you will start handing out bit fat wads of cash which is why most consumers stick to the flatrate 128KB/s.

Basically whenever you think Telecom you can substitute Oz Telstra, they are held in the same regard.

The Auckland peering exchange http://www.ape.net.nz/

The Wellington peering exchange http://www.wix.net.nz/

The probably out of date NOC list. http://www.usenet.net.nz/noc/index.html

jfp.

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