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On 29 Dec 2009 at 11:45, Shoppa, Tim wrote:

> David Lord writes:
> > I was worried when I had 15000 requests over a 30 minute period soon
> > after I joined the pool since that rate would take me over my isps
> > usage allowance. However it was soon obvious that level of
> > connections wasn't normal and over three months my two servers, each
> > with 512kbit setting, have had total of 570000 requests which I'm
> > happy with. Highest rate either server has seen is about 5000
> > requests over 5 minutes.
> 
> I don't see the math.
> 
> Even at the highest rate you mention, 15000 requests over 30 minutes
> would mean 21 million requests over one month.
> 
> About 100 bytes per request. So 2.1 Gbytes/month. That is not a huge
> bandwidth, an analog phone line has way more capacity, do ISP's really
> cap people there?

I'm on a 1GB per month weekday allowance and pay extra if I go above
that. Evening/weekend allowance is significantly higher.

David
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David Lord <[email protected]>
<ftp://ftp.lordynet.org/pub/pgpkeys/lg_david.pkr>
<http://www.lordynet.org/pub/pgpkeys/lg_david.pkr>



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