On Sun Oct 13 2:39 +1000, Ron Stodden wrote: > I get no mention of any "Internet2".
A few years ago, in response to growing commercial traffic and concern that commercial traffic would destroy the scientific and educational traffic which the original internet was built for, a consortium of US univerities and related entities laid some very fast bandwidth that no one from the .com/.org/.net namespaces can use. For instance, last time I talked to my uni's techs, UMass has a total of 90 Mbps to Internet2 and 72 Mbps to the rest of the Internet. Thus, if the server I try to connect to is in one of the netblocks defined as part of Internet2, I effectively own a pair of T3s to a very nice backbone. -- Levi Ramsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Love lies in pools of questions. GPG Key Fingerprint: 354C 7A02 77C5 9EE7 8538 4E8D DCD9 B4B0 DC35 67CD Currently playing: Metallica - Prince Charming Linux 2.4.19-16mdk 1:20pm up 9 days, 11:45, 12 users, load average: 0.23, 0.22, 0.56
