From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jun 1 15: 1:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from oberon.wwwnexus.com (oberon.wwwnexus.com [216.71.84.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8013A37B720 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 15:01:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jan@smartsoft.cc) Received: from smartsoft.cc (client-209-158-92-170.bellatlantic.net [209.158.92.170]) by oberon.wwwnexus.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA27365 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 16:43:18 -0500 Message-ID: <3936DCD4.C8C68F4B@smartsoft.cc> Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 17:59:48 -0400 From: Jan Knepper Organization: Smartsoft, LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-ISP@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Burstable T1 References: <3936B4DF.B9471CD2@smartsoft.cc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org What I understand from the docco is: * Burstable T1 is a T1 * It comes in basic contracts as: * 0 - 128 Kbps sustained use * 128 - 156 Kbps sustained use * 256 - 384 Kbps sustained use * 384 - 512 Kbps sustained use * 512 - Kbps sustained use Calculation is done in such a way that the sustained use is being determined. They take the highest 5% of the top and charge you for what you used. I discussed a simple example with them. Suppose I have 1 hour a day 1.5 Mbps load and the rest of the day nothing. This would means a sustained use of 1.5 Mbps / 24 hours for day is 64 Kbps per hour which would fall half way the 0 - 128 Kbps sustained use. The guy I talked with actually got a technical guy on the phone who confirmed that this example indeed would be covered by the first scale. Thus in basic they charge you for the "usage" not for the available capacity. Also, when assigned to the first scale, service has to overrun for two months in a row before they change to the next scale. Once going over 512 Kbps it's better to change to a "Price Protected T1". What I actually meant to ask is does any one of you have experience with Burstable T1 and how it turns out. Did you stay in the scale assigned or turned it out to be uncontrolable? Don't worry, be Kneppie! Jan -- =============================================================== Jan Knepper Smartsoft, LLC 88 Petersburg Road Petersburg, NJ 08270 U.S.A. Phone: 609-628-4260 FAX : 609-628-1267 http://www.smartsoft.cc/ --------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.pianoprincess.com/ http://www.mp3.com/pianoprincess http://www.riffage.com/Bands/0,2939,2859,00.html http://pianoprincess.iuma.com/ http://www.changemusic.com/piano_princess =============================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message