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On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Brian wrote:

> On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, John Gonzalez/netMDC admin 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.

I've seen 174 lines in use, with total incoming bandwidth at around
800kbps.

James Smallacombe					undead@priori.net
My opinions don't reflect the opinions of Priori, which is irrelevent
because they're no longer in business, and even more irrelevent because
I've never worked for them.  Then again, maybe they do, and maybe it is..	
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