On Thursday 14 December 2006 13:54, Roshan wrote: > College was shut today, for unknown reasons, so I > returned home and was reading my emails. > > Came across this blog > > http://www.leadstep.com/BusinessBlog/technology/the_truth_behind_indi >an_broadb.html > > Could someone have simpler explanations to what is > mentioned in this article?
complete nonsense. dont believe it a bit. Regarding the DNS issue, yes US has the root DNS servers so technically the really really low level DNS updates are taken from there but for everything else local DNSs are used which are caching servers. Regarding the international bandwidth aspect, that too is hogwash. Countries like Sweden, Norway, Japan, China, France, Britain, <insert EU nation here>, Estonia, Russia have Megabit packages for retail users. From personal experience of a friend in Sweden, he had 256Kbps DSL at his place and used to get 100% bandwidth ( They used to sync him to 15-20% higher rates than advertised to compensate for the DSL line losses ). Now he is on a 100Mbps pipe shared amongst 3 friends and gets ~20-30Mbps while downloading concurrently while gets 80-90Mbps while downloading alone. Yes, he does get better bandwidth with local servers than US ones. But I down think it makes any difference if I am downloading at 50-60Mbps or 80-90Mbps... Hes on SUNET FYI ( Its a gigabit backbone for all Swedish universities ). Next time if you see such an article DONT believe it. Its all FUD. Reliance, TATAs and Bharati have formed a nice cartel and they are ripping off not only the corporates but also the retail users. Did you know major portion of the submarine cables IN THE WORLD are being controlled by Reliance and TATAs ( FLAG and TYCO deal anyone? ) -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
