> The story goes:.... > we had free national traffic but there was a volume cap which we > consistently exceeded. Telecom then removed the free access and started > charging albeit at a lower rate than the international. > > This ennded up as costing about 9 dollars the the Uni' per CD downloaded > in NZ.
Why not Peer at one of the peering exchange? There's one being built down here early next year I recall from reading in pcworlds news page. The uni would have a fair bit of weight behind it and more than likely be able to establish connections with most of the Major ISPs in NZ which would result in free national traffic with them, dropping the amount of charged local access a lot. Apparently those with the most used stuff are able able to form the most peering agreements and the uni probably wouldn't have to much problem hosting a mirror with all the major linux distros and apps on it. Which would give it a fair amount of bargaining "power". As I'm thinking theres a lot of bandwidth currently used for linux and oss apps and no central or "major" NZ mirror. Chad
