[plug] Is Comindico dropping out of having Planetmirror on WAIX & why?

[Kim Covil]

I thought I had read somewhere that the reason Comindico were dropping
WAIX support is that they now no longer have free bandwidth available on
their cross country link... ie they were allowing an under utilised link
to be connected to WAIX but now have enough paid-for traffic to fill the
link and so are not going to keep their WAIX link up...

This would mean that the whole of Comindico will disappear off WAIX
including the planetmirror site.

But then my info could be wrong (I think I read it on Whirlpool
somewhere in the forums)

Cheers

Kim

On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 08:41, Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima wrote:
> On Thu, 16 May 2002, Ben Jensz wrote:
> 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Daniel [mailto:cottmain at iinet.net.au] 
> > >
> > > Hello Plug,
> > > thanks for the responses to my queries about Planetmirror.  One
> > mentioned 
> > > something about Comindico dropping out of having Planetmirror on WAIX.
> > 
> > > Does anyone know more details?  (When and why ....)
> > > Thanks,
> > > Daniel.
> > 
> > This is the email I was referring to below.
> > 
> > Circumstances may have changed, as we can all see that PlanetMirror is
> > still peered via WAIX currently (as it appears is everything else on
> > their eastern states network).
> > 
> > Or maybe ComIndico haven't put into effect their route changes.  Either
> > way, its certainly something to watch closely, as I don't think anyone
> > who jumps onto a WAIX ISP for ADSL that is offering free WAIX traffic
> > will want to find out _after_ they've downloaded 3Gb of isos or other
> > stuff that that data has just counted towards your download limit.
> > That'd be a rather unfortunate surprise.
> 
> 
> I'm fairly ceratin that what this means is you will nolonger be able to reach
> Comindico-Peers (as opposed to WAIX peers) via Comindico (which had been possible 
> previously, Mmmmm free Ausbone :)).  I don't believe that it means at all the 
> Comindico will be dropping from WAIX, not will any Comindico housed service.
> 
> I feel that as long as Planetmirror is housed at comindico it _will_ be
> availbale via WAIX.
> 
> 
> Yours Tony.
> 
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