From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jun 1 14:18:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from federation.addy.com (federation.addy.com [208.11.142.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 385A437B57B for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 14:18:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@federation.addy.com) Received: from localhost (jim@localhost) by federation.addy.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA99758 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 17:18:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jim@federation.addy.com) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 17:18:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Sander Cc: FreeBSD-ISP@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Burstable T1 In-Reply-To: <200006012049.QAA03620@etinc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Burstable T1 (or DSL...same difference)..the provider simply puts a lot > more customers on the line. From what I have been told, this is not the case. Of course talking to network reps is always entertaining, and not necessarily enlightening, so any input from others would be welcome. When talking to one I refered to TCP/IP and he asked me if that was like voice over IP- yeah, we'll buy our network service from him! :) But anyway, this is what was described to me by one I sort of trust at least minimally... The difference between a "full" T1 and a burstable T1 is simply the way you are billed. You still have a wire run into your location that is dedicated- you can "burst" up to the full T1 bandwidth, and you are billed according to some usage formula usually involving 95th percentile use or some-such "logic." Of course it works out so that even an unused line costs some amount, and that if you exceed their max limit that you pay more for your burstable than a normal full-rate line. This may be a different service than was described to anyone else- and such an animal may not be available in your area, but that's my potentially flawed understanding of "burstable." If anyone has an "official" definition I'd like to hear. -=Jim=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message