RE: BB exchange triggers?

["Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>]

Well said on the gamer thing...

Commonest problem in Networking is to confuse the need for low latency with
the need for high bandwidth.

M.

-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Laurence [mailto:andy@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 10 October 2002 11:32
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] BB exchange triggers?


From: "BUTLER, Tony, FM" <roaming@xxxxxxx>
> >With some decent traffic management this can be handled easily,
and since
> >it'd be residential users you wouldn't see all of them online 24/7
:)
>
> No, but at peak times - say 6pm to 10pm, when most ppl are likely to
be
> hitting the net, then you may not get very much of that phat pipe.

At lunchtime on our (highly contended) 1Mbps ADSL, we still get decent
speeds in the office.  That's with 50 employees all surfing
away.  Things
like a webcache can speed things up no end, as well as removing banner
ads
(1k web page, 10k advert).

> Depends on usage - ppl surfing the web won't give a monkeys as it's
a
> relatively slow thing anyway, but if u live in a community of
online
gamers,
> then the connection may well be seriously mashed - and if some of them
are
> _Student_ gamers then you _will_ get it hit 24/7, as these types
never
sleep

Heh, true.  I don't think you'd find your bandwidth lost to loads of
gamers
though.  Think how many you'd need to saturate a 2Mbps link
considering you
can do gaming on 56kbps.  It's ping times rather than bandwidth,
AFAIAA.

Andy



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