On Tuesday 14 February 2006 16:57, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 04:52:57PM +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> > I'm concerned because I want the discount on NZ traffic which
> > currently is denied me.
>
> Do they have plans with a national tarrif any more?
Yes. This is what you get off their traffic monitor web page:-
Volume used for csawtell
Billing Period International National
Equivalent
All Billing Periods...
2005-11-18 to 2005-12-17 9575.65 2191.07
9794.76
2005-12-18 to 2006-01-17 10016.93 1659.80
10182.91
2006-01-18 to 2006-02-17 9726.02 1360.54
9862.07
And here is a sample of today's traffic:-
Destination IP International
National Equivalent
38.113.228.130 0.06 0.06
[ ... ]
195.130.132.84 apollo.telenet-ops.be 0.52
0.52
202.7.6.9 ftp.citylink.co.nz 43.52
43.52
[ ... ]
Total 60.46 0.47 60.51
All figures are in megabytes (MB). The Equivalent column is the chargable
usage.
Notice how the traffice for ftp.citylink.co.nz is in the International
column.
> I thought they got rid of them ... ?
Not for my connection.
> Certainly it's impossible to get them to define what
> "national" is in advance ... in theory they should be able to publish
> their BGP routing data, so it would be possible to predict the charge
> for a given packet ...
I don't think they'd ever do that because it would result in a flood of
email traffic from people such as yourself who could put them right. I
don't suppose they want to to embarrassed.
--
CS
