Over sub ratio can vary greatly from one ISP to the next. I would take note
of what it is, but I wouldn't base anything on it.

On Oct 2, 2016 8:23 AM, "Chris Fabien" <[email protected]> wrote:

> For upstream circuits, we dont upgrade based on a ratio of mbps sold. We
> upgrade based on utilizaton. we never want to hit over 80%.
>
> On Oct 2, 2016 12:38 AM, "That One Guy /sarcasm" <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> so, we hit a wall this week with lopsided providers. we hit an
>> approximate 20:1 and choked. with some policy routing we took it to about a
>> 14:1 ratio and got things buffered. this is upstream, i still am
>> comfortable with 12-15:1 on the ap/cpe side.
>>
>> At what ratio do you decide to buy more provider bandwidth? rule of
>> thumb, because we are all different. With our size, we could probably still
>> afford a 1:1 on the upstream, but we would be wasting a shit ton of cash.
>>
>> Powercode sucks ass for reporting, so its a manual process to see what
>> your ratio is, even though they could pop out report very easily, and I
>> assume query guys already are because Powercode makes it too hard.
>>
>>
>> I am concerned with my personal accountability on this however. Im
>> normally pretty anal about monitoring for points of failure, and I
>> completely dropped the ball on this, relegating some customer complaints to
>> the "quit whining you little bitch" bin, assuming it wa a customer end
>> issue when I should have realized we had sold too much and put it out the
>> small pipe. Any advice (aside from maintaining a 1:1) for metrics to
>> monitor that indicate you oversubscribe?
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team
>> as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
>>
>

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