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Mike Bell (athasian@altavista.net)
Fri, 16 Mar 2001 19:50:45 -0800
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 05:40:15PM -0800, Raymond D. Mereniuk wrote:
> Colocation generally has a certain maximum amount of bandwidth
> included. The amount of included bandwidth can vary but is
> generally based on the base rate. An ISP could put a choke on
> your access and limit your maximum traffic. Some ISPs manage to
> do this more by accident than design but the effect is the same.
>
> In real life I have seen unlimited bandwidth offered to a customer
> but a choke was put on the network access.
PSINet does just this, they offer you a x mb/s line and you can saturate it
for as long as you want, with 2x that for burst. After that letter to their
sales staff on fuckedcompany.com I was cold-called by one of their sales
people (twice), so presumably they're fighting over sales and you can talk a
good deal out of them. They certainly had plenty of derogatory comments to
make about peer1. :-)
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