Hey, do you have a deal with my Telco on C-T1 lines too? :-) The HiperDSP cards are cheap, but the Telco pricing isn't. Actually, I have two HDSP cards, but only have one C-T1 right now. Some of the pricing here is based on escalation the more you have, so we have to combine some ports on T1, some on BRI and some on Analog Centrex lines. For example, if you call up the telco and want 1 BRI line (so two telephone or modem channels) the BRI line will be $74.50 each (so $37.25 per line). As you would normally expect, prices get a bit cheaper for 2 lines or 5 lines, so that they eventually get down to $62.50 per BRI (just $31.25 per modem line) for 10 BRI lines. However, if you want 11+ lines, suddenly ALL the lines (including the first 10) go up to $150 per line. SaskTel says this is due to trunk loading (Yea, that's a load alright) but it's obviously to keep competative ISP's in the red. 10 lines cost $500 / month, but 11 lines would cost $1,650 / month. That's a pretty expensive 11th line! The same thing with Centrex lines - they start off affordable, but if you get to many in the same hunt group, the price escalates to make it unaffordable. So, we have 10 BRI lines (20 modems), 16 Centrex lines and a T1 (24 modem ports) for 60 ports. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lewis Bergman" <lbergman@abi.tconline.net> To: <usr-tc@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 2:54 PM Subject: Re: [USR-TC] MRTG Help
On Thursday 29 August 2002 07:30 am, Craig Gittens wrote:
I'm glad that fixed it Todd. However I must say that I would not be happy with that solution. Why is it possibly getting a reading over 24 or an unknown reading? That would bug the h311 out of me. For example, suppose you get a reading of 6 and then get that flat 6 reading for the next two hours because it suddenly jumped to 25 or some bug kicked in. You have no reliable stats. Yes, your graphs looks prettier now but not necessarily correct. If you notice you have quite a few flat lines in it which indicate it did it's unknown number for at least 15-20 minutes. That is an indication that something is wrong. The real solution of course is to buy enough ports so that one or two telnet users doesn't mean your graphs are totally whacked. These things are chep enough now, just buy another. -- Lewis Bergman Texas Communications 4309 Maple St. Abilene, TX 79602-8044 915-695-6962 ext 115
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