On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Mike Andrews wrote:
3 to 1 is ridiculously low. We've got 6 PRI's worth of dialup traffic in one remote pop, and the T1 heading there peaks at 880 kbps. That carries only dialup traffic; no dedicated lines or DSL or anything else. I figure I can get to at least 9 PRI's before I worry about getting a second T1 down there...
<rest deleted> That would be true if we all lived in warm climates where people have other things to do... We have a number of very rural pops in Ohio where people spend a great deal of time on the net. In places where there aren't many fun things to do or when the weather is bad enough to keep people inside, dialup to customer and data to dialup ratios go up. When there's more fun stuff to do, people spend less time on the net and when they do, they're often too busy to spend a bunch of time doing a lot of things. The ROI on these POPs takes longer, though they do turn profitable eventually. I could be way off base on this, but this is what I've seen from our net. Kevin E-Mail: s1kevin@tims.net Web: http://users.sota-oh.com/~s1kevin/ Unsolicited advertisements processing fee: $50 subject to change without notice - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.