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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses
> Umm.. don't bother. Let's think this through. 2Mbits/sec of bandwidth > will only sustain about 40 56KB modems doing a simultaneous download. This misunderstanding of bandwidth usage has been propagated many times before... one can only hope that it will go away someday. Some *real* statistics... one of my rural POPs (translation: heavy usage) has 620 subscribers and 112 V.90 modems. *Real* bandwidth usage over the last month: 515.3Kb/s maximum, and 233.7Kb/s average. Clearly no where near 2 Mb/s. It also gets by with a /25. My urban POPs have one-half to two-thirds this usage. > inbound cash flow of only $8K/month Well, it would be $12,400/mo at 620 subscribers. That's plenty for a mom-and-pop, which can easily handle 620 subscribers. There are many ISPs in the country that are this size or smaller, some of which are downstream from me. Our policy in this situation would be to allocate a /24 to the customer initially, and route more as needed. -- Bruce Robertson, President/CEO +1-775-348-7299 Great Basin Internet Services, Inc. fax: +1-775-348-9412 For PGP key: finger [email protected]
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