Re: Kicked Off PlusNet NOW!!

[Calum Morrell <calum@xxxxxxx>]

Timothy Morris wrote:

> Sorry!

No problem, I didn't think it was intentional.


> I fact as it scales up it becomes easier and easier to add in new
routes
> upstream to cope with increased demand for bandwidth. My business
partners
> in Houston are constantly monitoring bandwidth requirements on their
> network. The ground rules vary between ISPs, but they use a 70%
average
> utilisation as a rough rule of thumb. Obviously if at peak times the
traffic
> is utilising 100% of available bandwidth then something needs to be
done.
> For the sort on analysis backbone providers do, take a look at
> http://west-boot.mfnx.net/traffic/#lhr.
With BT finally getting competition
> through LLU, if they don't increase backbone capacity sufficiently
customers
> will walk. I remember when I first started using the net ('94) that if
you
> wanted to surf US sites from the UK, and download any large files (5Mb
plus)
> even at 28.8k, the only way to do so without interminable hold ups,
was to
> go on at about 7am in the morning. Even with huge increases in use
(numbers
> of users, plus individual connect speeds), the backbone has actually
done
> more than catch up. Even downloading at 7-8 o'clock in the evening
now,
> where traffic to East Coast sites is at its peak I achieve data rates
which
> are limited by my local connection speed.

> I have been monitoring Above-nets status for the past 6 months now
which

> takes a lot of corporate as well as consumer traffic, and although the
> utilisation has increased so has network capacity! This is one of the
main
> reasons I took out my DSL contract with Iomart.

Excellent, glad to hear that a proactive approach is actually being taken
for
once. I know the internet explosion over the last 5 years was unexpected,
but it
showed clearly that the powers that be [at that time] had little
forethought - I
remember when I thought 0.3KBs over a 28.8Kbps connection was fast!


> Sorry this turned into a pissing contest - I didn't intend it that
way.
> Makes a change from Epods, at least.

Certainly does - I deleted the entire stream. Just out of interest, can you
control your helicopter with an epod [hook it up to homevision, load a
couple of
darts, link into some motion detectors on your security system - get the
idea?].



Calum