With the risk of this turning into WhingePool, i've been seeing unshiny things with amnet of late. Occasionally we'll intermittently lose most of the outside world for a few seconds, or it just won't be as fast as we've seen it before.
I'm of course a bandwidth whore. Not so much with the need for a huge download limit, but somehow bits of me think that my webpages should be down in 300ms or they're free.
This is a bit unreasonable, but Amnet use to be scaryily, and almost unsustainably fast. I could get ~500kB/s whenever. Now i'm really surprised if I get 128kB/s.
How sustainable is it to have a large residential userbase with several megabits each expecting fast speeds? Even with your own fibre rings around the city, how much upstream bandwidth is really affordable?
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Date: 2006-10-09 02:39 am (UTC)I'm of course a bandwidth whore. Not so much with the need for a huge download limit, but somehow bits of me think that my webpages should be down in 300ms or they're free.
This is a bit unreasonable, but Amnet use to be scaryily, and almost unsustainably fast. I could get ~500kB/s whenever. Now i'm really surprised if I get 128kB/s.
How sustainable is it to have a large residential userbase with several megabits each expecting fast speeds? Even with your own fibre rings around the city, how much upstream bandwidth is really affordable?