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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.networking:9889 comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip:12801 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:3460 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!newsfeed.ACO.net!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Internet service providing-which OS? Date: 23 Jul 1995 01:21:36 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 10 Distribution: best Message-ID: <3us870$15o@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3ue5qa$ain@panix.com> <3upgga$oqo@usenet.interramp.com> <3upmq7$11f@agate.berkeley.edu> <3urba1$cgl@blob.best.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <3urba1$cgl@blob.best.net>, Matt Dillon <dillon@best.com> wrote: > Gentlemen. If I remember correctly, ftp.cdrom.com is sitting on > a BARRNET T3 backbone and, on average, pulls about 6 MBytes / sec > in bandwidth. That's on the order of 4 T1 equivalences! It's on the T3 backbone, but is connected to same via a 10mb/sec ethernet connection which it pretty much maxes out. 1 T1 = 1.54 Mb, yes? So saying that 10Mb = 7 T1s is not that poor of an approximation. Jordan