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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!world1.bawave.com!news2.cais.net!news.cais.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!inXS.uu.net!nntp.inet.fi!news.funet.fi!news.cs.hut.fi!news.clinet.fi!not-for-mail From: mickey@cantina.clinet.fi (Mika Ruohotie) Newsgroups: demon.ip.support,demon.tech.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Batch FTP and Web Pages Date: 8 Jul 1996 23:46:52 +0300 Organization: Clinet, Espoo, Finland Lines: 35 Message-ID: <4rrs3s$i7s@cantina.clinet.fi> References: <31D4AA3A.BC0@www.play-hookey.com> <31D87436.7C7F@www.play-hookey.com> <836295557snz@dsl.co.uk> <4rcr6v$dh@anorak.coverform.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: cantina.clinet.fi Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> wrote: >So, what you're saying is that demon - who recently were applying for >another class B address space (about 65000 users currently?) have decided >in their infinite wisdom to invest in a T3? Well, bully for them. Let's >see, 45,000,000 bits / 65,000 users = 692 *bits* each. Woooooffff ! >I'll get out there and start my 86 byte/sec download now ! Ok, maybe >that's a bit unfair. They havn't got the capacity to have everyone >connected at once. Let's say they allow 6000 of us in at once, what's >that, about 937 bytes per second ? In fact, this *wonderful* T3 will >allow a staggering 1607 28.8k users to get max throughput. I'd better >rush home and get in there first. why do i remember hearing about some statistical formula for counting the actual amount of users a specified bandwidth can handle... it was something about a cable being able to handle lot more people, with still full speed, than simple calculation would indicate... it was quite theoretical conversation and i read it on some local mailing list about two years ago... but the people who were talking about it are people who have been around the internet for like 20+ years... anyone knows what i'm talking about here? if someone is interested enough i can actually ask an english version from the theory from one of the persons... and the theory itself was from someone else then the people who were talking, they even mentioned, i think, some book that explains the thing... *shrug* >Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> mickey