[plug] ArachNet sale to AmCom...

[Shannon Carver]

Hey again, 

 

Sorry to sway off topic again, but that's a point of view I hadn't
thought of.  In iinet's favour they have 2TB local FTP server with
rsynced debian/gentoo/xxx.... Repositories, which is extremely useful in
that respect.  I guess however, that the fact Amnet gives you 80GB of
waix traffic on the larger plan would be more than enough for those sort
of downloads.  Pity the people trying to pull that kind of data on the
lower traffic plans though!

 

Shannon

 

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From: Craig Foster [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf Of Craig
Foster
Sent: Friday, 9 September 2005 2:56 PM
To: plug at plug.org.au
Subject: RE: [plug] ArachNet sale to AmCom...

 

 

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From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au on behalf of Senectus .
Sent: Fri 09-Sep-05 2:22 PM
To: plug at plug.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] ArachNet sale to AmCom...

On 9/9/05, Chris Caston <caston at arach.net.au> wrote:
> > yeah but that was 2 years ago.. this is today.. and I'm still kinda
> > unimpressed that they're charging for WAIX data.. :-/
> >
>
> Why? If you saturate their pipe sucking down 8mb all the time they
have
> to buy a bigger one.
>

The answer to that is you rate limit total waix access... which to me
would make a lot more sense than setting and trying to police
individual download limits.. (which they haven't had much luck with
lately.)

--
Hmm that's odd since according to
http://www.waia.asn.au/cacti/graph.php?rra_id=all&local_graph_id=6 they
aren't getting hammered.

The whingepool threads mentioned that they got shaped by their
providers, but that sound like crack-smoking.

<rant-mode>

Seriously, I wouldn't mind if Amnet allowed free WAIX, however they
QoS'd anything not to or from ports 3389, 21, 25, 80, 443, and 1723 to a
combined total bandwidth. (say 10Mb/s int'l and 50Mb/s WAIX) on
residential accounts - similar to the what happens in reality on a
heavily used cable internet street's bandwidth.

The biggest issue with Amnet I see, is the lack of local content - game
servers, debian repositories, FTP or Tucows... Until we have local
content we *have* to use WAIX.

I think I'll have a lie down now.... (and yes - those figures were
pulled from thin air but the idea is there)

</rant-mode>

Craig F.
Amnet 8/1M Teleworker Customer...

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