From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jun 1 16:16:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3925137B69A for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 16:16:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Received: from dbsys (dbsys.etinc.com [207.252.1.18]) by etinc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA04008; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 19:21:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200006012321.TAA04008@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 19:20:46 -0400 To: Jan Knepper , FreeBSD-ISP@FreeBSD.ORG From: Dennis Subject: Re: Burstable T1 In-Reply-To: <3936DCD4.C8C68F4B@smartsoft.cc> References: <3936B4DF.B9471CD2@smartsoft.cc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 05:59 PM 6/1/00 -0400, Jan Knepper wrote: >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. which has nothing to do with "burstability". Doesnt surprise me. Noone understands anything anymore :-( DB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message