Bruce Guenter wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 02:17:19PM +0000, Greg Cope wrote:
> > My question is thus - When does a host become well connected ?
>
> When the bandwidth required to send its mail is significantly smaller
> than the bandwidth available. That is, if you have to send 100,000 5K
> messages over a 1 hour period, you would need a T1, and you would fill
> it to over 75% capacity.
>
> In general, the concept of "well connected" is dependant on your mail
> volume. If you only have to send a few non-time-sensitive emails a day,
> your 9.6Kb modem is well connected. If you have to pay by the
> kilo/mega/giga-byte of traffic, you're probably not well connected. If
> opening up concurrencyremote connections and sending mail kills your
> link for other applications using the network, you're not well (enough)
> connected.
> --
> Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/
Thanks
I'm going to try and measure the real bandwidth our servers have to see
whats going on.
Greg
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