From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jun 2 6:15:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.polytechnic.edu.na (mail.polytechnic.edu.na [196.31.225.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB27137B644 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 06:15:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tim@polytechnic.edu.na) Received: from [196.31.225.199] (helo=polytechnic.edu.na) by mail.polytechnic.edu.na with esmtp (Exim 3.02 #2) id 12xtBQ-0001ux-00; Fri, 02 Jun 2000 13:16:24 -0200 Message-ID: <3937B36A.8E4DA483@polytechnic.edu.na> Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 14:15:22 +0100 From: Tim Priebe Reply-To: tim@iafrica.com.na X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Flowers Cc: Jan Knepper , FreeBSD-ISP@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Burstable T1 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jim Flowers wrote: [...] > The statistical multiplexing of TDM streams occurs throughout the > Internet and is one of the reasons for the low cost to reach all the way > around the world. Want to pay for a full wired T-1 from here to India? Actually this is only a small part of why it costs you so little to "reach all the way around the world". The biggest is that you do not pay anything for the line to India from the US. The people in India pay for it all. Tim. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message