From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 28 16:28:34 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA17219 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 16:28:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from horst.bfd.com (horst.bfd.com [12.9.219.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA17212 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 16:28:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Received: from HARLIE.bfd.com (bastion.bfd.com [12.9.219.14]) by horst.bfd.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA07712; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 16:26:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 16:26:59 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" To: Robert Chalmers cc: freebsd Subject: Re: Next Question. Which is better. 64K ISDN, or 56K/33.6 POTS ? In-Reply-To: <36B0ECEB.5AA38F20@chalmers.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Robert Chalmers wrote: > >From a webservice point of view, which is better. ISDN, or 56/33.6 Modem over > POTS. with PPP on both. > > Given the network congestion these days, it seems to me there is not a lot of > advantage in going to 64K ISDN, especially given its cost in Australia. I get compliments on the speed of my server, and it runs on a 28.8K modem. Then again, my web pages are all text, no graphics, so it goes quick, and there's seldom more than a handful of people hitting it at the same time, and then only when there's a chat going on. For 10K/hits a day, a modem is fine. It would probably start suffering from congestion at about 50K/hits a day, depending on the size of the pages and graphics content. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message