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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hey again, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>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!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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Craig Foster [mailto:plug-bounces@plug.org.au] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Craig Foster<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, 9 September 2005
2:56 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> plug@plug.org.au<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [plug] ArachNet sale
to AmCom...</span></font><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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plug-bounces@plug.org.au on behalf of Senectus .<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Fri 09-Sep-05 2:22 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> plug@plug.org.au<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [plug] ArachNet sale
to AmCom...</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>On
9/9/05, Chris Caston <caston@arach.net.au> wrote:<br>
> > yeah but that was 2 years ago.. this is today.. and I'm still kinda<br>
> > unimpressed that they're charging for WAIX data.. :-/<br>
> ><br>
><br>
> Why? If you saturate their pipe sucking down 8mb all the time they have<br>
> to buy a bigger one.<br>
><br>
<br>
The answer to that is you rate limit total waix access... which to me<br>
would make a lot more sense than setting and trying to police<br>
individual download limits.. (which they haven't had much luck with<br>
lately.)<br>
<br>
--<br>
Hmm that's odd since according to <a
href="http://www.waia.asn.au/cacti/graph.php?rra_id=all&local_graph_id=6">http://www.waia.asn.au/cacti/graph.php?rra_id=all&local_graph_id=6</a> they
aren't getting hammered.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>The
whingepool threads mentioned that they got shaped by their providers, but that
sound like crack-smoking.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><rant-mode></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>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.<br>
<br>
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.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I think
I'll have a lie down now.... (and yes - those figures were pulled from thin air
but the idea is there)</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'></rant-mode></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Craig F.<br>
Amnet 8/1M Teleworker Customer...<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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