Binand Raj S. spewed into the ether: <snip> >> traffic goes out of the country on very limited bandwidth. Plus, most ISPs >> seem to think of the Internet as a cable TV like service where you just >> download. > >That's sometimes true too, isn't it? My own MRTG graphs show incoming >traffic many times higher than outgoing. Ummm, for the simple reason that those of us who want to run servers are either not allowed to do that by AUP or too high bandwidth prices? (No, metered bandwidth is not nice for running a server of your own on 64/128 kbps. I would really like to get 512K local and 128K international bandwidth. Then I would actually prefer to use an Indian site, but if I am paying for international traffic, might as well use it.)
But where is the incoming traffic originating? There was a statistic that 90% of the bandwidth on a hotmail page is taken by ads and images, all of which originate outside the country. It is actually cheaper to put a site on a colocated server in the US than in India :(. Anyone know what the current status of the IXP is? Devdas Bhagat ------------------------------------------------------------ NEW - FREE Nettaxi 56kbs Dial-up INTERNET ACCESS with NO ADS or Ad Bars! http://www.nettaxi.com/isp/ ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
