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On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Travis Johnson wrote:

> If you are only going to 100KB/second, you are only using 60% of a T-1! You can
> easily get 190KB/second from a backbone point to point T-1 line. Trust me, I
> know... we have four T-1's that are SEVERELY overloaded right now... we were
> supposed to have another one installed in December and the provider backed
> out...
> Here's a sample MRTG graph of our AT&T circuit:
> 
> http://nac.ida.net/204.228.203.7.5.html
> 
> How's that for a load? :)

actually that looks quite bad.  You are *majorly* clipping on that
t1.........your other t1's have plenty of room left for this traffic
though.  If I were you I would pick a few of your announcments and AS
prepend them out to ATT to move some of that traffic off of them.

Brian


> 
> Travis
> Microserv
> 
> 
> John Gonzalez/netMDC admin wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Brian wrote:
> >
> > >> This brings up a question. I've seen it discussed on the list, and i dont
> > >> want to beat a dead horse, but i'm curious. We have ~280 telephone lines,
> > >> and have 2 T1's. We have a third T1 on order. He's pushing 520 dialup
> > >> lines and two T1's... Each ISP is of course going to be different, but am
> > >> i that far off everyone else or what?
> > >
> > >I would think that 3 t1's for 280 customers seems like alot.  It depends
> > >though, how many of these are isdn?  Also the habits of your customers
> > >come into play.  If you are taking news feeds over these t1's that that
> > >could easily account for 1 or 2 t1's (or more!) by itself.......
> > >
> > >I would think that mail/web server traffic for an isp with just 280 lines,
> > >probably doesn't add up to much, and if you're not doing news feeds over
> > >them, and this is just customer traffic, then I would think 3 is alot.
> > >You should be able to get 200-250 users per t1 at least without a
> > >problem......but then again, thier is no hard and fast rules to this.
> >
> > No news feeds over these, and we only have a handful of ISDN customers. I
> > guess i ordered the 3rd one in anticipation of offering DSL access.
> >
> > Both T1's during PEAK times average 100k/s, and of course, peak during
> > peak times goes higher. Perhaps i just like extra bandwidth for myself and
> > game playing in the office, i dont want those pesky users cutting into my
> > personal stuff, ya know?
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