Hi Everyone, I've been away from the WISP world for going on eight years now. But a requirement for my job is allowing me to once again soon start to enjoy all the fun. :)
I have a question on provisioning. I notice many WISPs are offering enormous bandwidth packages (enormous to me, since way back when, giving someone a meg down/256k up was a lot). We used to over-provision by about 7-1 or even 8-1 (I had three T-1s bonded using CEF, and that was over $3k a month. Having only 4.5 MB to the world will force your hand at that), used Squid caching boxes... anything we could to make the available bandwidth go around. I'm curious as to what sort of circuit to the Internet is typical now - I'm guessing that many WISPs are using 100MB to the world, or possibly more. Offering 5MB down/1MB up, even with a 100MB circuit, using 4-1 or 5-1 over-provisioning doesn't seem like it would take long before you'd have people calling and complaining about not getting what the speed for which they were paying. I'd be most-grateful for any guidance you may want to share. Thanks, Sam _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
