On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Ask Bjørn Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
On Jan 16, 2006, at 5:16 AM, Greg Kochanski wrote:
I would be happy to join, but the trafic is
too high for my current agreement with my ISP
(3 GB/month). At the estimated 10-20 kbits/s,
that would be between 100% and 200% of my total traffic
allowance spent on NTP.
If it were possible to sign up at a lower level,
I (for one) would go for it.
Hi Greg,
Over the weekend I added a setting for each server to specify the
available bandwidth.
In the coming months I'll start using that information to balance the
load on the pool servers.
However, Greg's question raises an interesting point about your request
for connection speeds. There are plenty of co-lo and leased server deals
around that offer high speeds, but a capped monthly transfer, or at
least extra charges if you exceed a specified transfer. In that respect,
it is not the absolute speed of the connection that is important, but
how much bandwidth a user is prepared to donate to the pool. Greg may
have a really fast connection, but the fact that he's severely limited
in the amount of data he can transfer in a month means that he needs any
load balancing to keep his traffic right down.
Perhaps you go any further with this project it would be wise to
consider changing the question you're asking to "how much bandwidth can
you make available to the pool?" or similar, and lowering the figures in
the option dropdown. There probably needs to me more thought to the
exact wording - this sort of implies that the pool will keep your
traffic within the limits you select, whereas of course it has no power
to do that.
--
Chris Hastie
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