Re: Home media servers, AUPs, and upstream bandwidth utilization.

2006-12-26 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Mobile access to Orb or Slingbox does not include using your mobile as a modem. Not sure what that means. They certainly support mobileusbpc or datacard use, so it's not that. Do they mean no Slingbox viewing on a pc attached to a mobile? Why? On 12/26/06, Roland Dobbins [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Home media servers, AUPs, and upstream bandwidth utilization.

2006-12-26 Thread Frank Bulk
What hasn't been yet discussed is the upstream/downstream disparity on the link to the upstream provider. At least in our ISP operations, downstream peaks out at about 3x the upstream, and downstream only dips to the upstream utilization at the wee hours of the morning. I wouldn't mind if

RE: Home media servers, AUPs, and upstream bandwidth utilization.

2006-12-26 Thread Joe St Sauver
Chris mentioned: #it might also be interesting to know how tcp-stack differences affect some #of the usage patterns as well. With the now widely deployed win* platform #tcp stach respecting tcp-reno things work according to well #understood/accepted models. Mac OSX, linux and Vista seem to NOT

Re: Home media servers, AUPs, and upstream bandwidth utilization.

2006-12-26 Thread Roland Dobbins
On Dec 26, 2006, at 12:12 PM, John Kristoff wrote: I'm not very excited about things like jumbo frames, in part because of the good work you did there to show hard they are to actually get end-to-end, but all it takes these days is for one middle box in the path to cripple, in any myriad of

Undersea fiber cut after Taiwan earthquake - PCCW / Singtel / KT etc connectivity disrupted

2006-12-26 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087sid=aYHaxhLE4rr0refer=home Singapore Telecom, PCCW Say Internet Disrupted by Taiwan Quakes By Andrea Tan Dec. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. Southeast Asia's largest telephone company, and Hong Kong's PCCW Ltd. said Internet

Re: Undersea fiber cut after Taiwan earthquake - PCCW / Singtel / KT e tc connectivity disrupted

2006-12-26 Thread Fergie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Reuters AlertNet says (props, Vicky Rode): [snip] While a tsunami warning came to nothing, the quake damaged at least six undersea telecommunication cables, affecting users in Taiwan and South Korea, and was felt in China and Hong Kong. [snip]