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On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Dan Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote: > We pay @ 4K/month for 3Mbps/512Kbps for a rural town, which is really 3Mbps > on a 5x oversell. It's really ugly, so caching is a must. There is no hope > for a better future either 8(. > > - Dan > > > On 9/2/2010 8:16 PM, Scottie Arnett wrote: > > Consider yourself lucky...in the REAL rural areas we pay over $1000/mth for > 6 meg connections. > > Scott > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Travis Johnson > To: WISPA General List > Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 8:05 PM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Akamai / other caching servers > I have two OC-3 connections (155Mbps) and one OC-12 connection (620Mbps)... > and even at those levels, I still average $50/meg as my hard cost. I am > selling 10Mbps x 10Mbps dedicated connections to businesses and schools, > etc. for $500/month. > > Travis > Microserv > > > On 9/1/2010 5:34 PM, Mike wrote: > > I too would love to know that formula. I doubt if it would work in rural > Tama County Iowa. Most businesses are agribusiness (i.e. farmers) and I > already have most of them in my footprint. My biggest obstacle right now is > finding cheap bandwidth. So even a statement that bandwidth is cheap right > now does not apply to me. > > Friendly Regards, > > Mike > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Chuck Hogg > Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 6:26 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Akamai / other caching servers > > I wish I had $500/mth business customers to sign up everyday! > Regards, > > Chuck > > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Travis Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Been there, done ALL of that. Not worth the headaches. Bandwidth is > CHEAP now... time is still the most valuable thing in this business... > > I can spend hours messing, tweaking, fighting, adjusting, etc. a cache > proxy, or in that same amount of time I can go install a business > connection for $500/month and pay for ANY additional bandwidth it may > save me. And I can do this every day. :) > > Travis > Microserv > > On 9/1/2010 2:29 PM, Blake Covarrubias wrote: >> On Sep 1, 2010, at 5:14 AM, Travis Johnson wrote: >> >>> Yes, but the bandwidth savings are not worth the headaches (another box >>> or two to maintain, some sites don't like to be cached, customer support >>> calls, web sites blocking a certain IP address because ALL the traffic from >>> your network is coming from the cache server IP, etc.). >> Its possible to prevent Squid from caching certain sites. Just create an >> ACL to deny caching them. Still too much to maintain? Deny caching all >> content by default, then create an ACL which only allows caching of sites >> you choose. >> >> If you don't want your proxy requests sourced from a single IP then use >> TProxy (http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/Tproxy4). With this your proxy >> can be fully transparent appearing as if the requests were sourced directly >> from a client instead of your Squid box. >> >> Get a Cisco router and redirect traffic to Squid using WCCP. If your Squid >> box dies the router automatically stops redirecting the traffic, and your >> users continue to surf the web normally. >> >> -- >> Blake Covarrubias >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! 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