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Re: T1 avg. customers? WAS: Skycache

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From: Travis Johnson
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 00:00
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We are waiting for another T-1 from UUnet that was supposed to be here Friday. I
don't want to spend ALOT of time getting things balanced here when I will just have
to re-do it when the other T-1 gets here. If I take the AS prepend off the ELI
circuit, then ELI looks the same as the AT&T circuit right now... :(

Travis


Brian wrote:

> 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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> > >  10:35pm  up 69 days,  5:32,  4 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.11, 0.14
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> -----------------------------------------------------
> Brian Feeny (BF304)     signal@shreve.net
> 318-222-2638 x 109      http://www.shreve.net/~signal
> Network Administrator   ShreveNet Inc. (ASN 11881)
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From: Travis Johnson <tlj@ida.net>
Subject: Re: T1 avg. customers? WAS: Skycache
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