well seems yu're thinking in the right direction on choice of ISP's:-) - @everyone, ISP's generally do not sell dedicated bandwidth services (because the internet's content is not centralized) this dedicated services are always priced differently, try it, call your ISP and tell them you want dedicated 1Mb to a Yahoo server in london (mind you not the one in the states), tell them at exactly 11am tomorrow you will run a test to ensure you're getting that capacity, then ask them to price that for you. The bandwidth ISP's purchase is like a road, the bigger it is the better the flow, If all of us buy cars and actually drive them, you know what happens, if the chinese come and put up a super highway on Mombasa road, they don't care to what part of Kenya or the world that road leads you to, all they know is the bottleneck (traffic jam) won't be on THAT highway, If I further go and expand my driveway (the equivalent of 'doubling your capacity' being hawked by ISP's - it doubles your local loop) it won't matter, I'll still drive the one car from my driveway to the superhighway..... don't be lost in translation, ask for what you want from your ISP, move if you're not happy with them..... On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Simon Mbuthia <simon.mbuthia@gmail.com> wrote:
It's OK.. I took note of what to do... showed it to my boss. Let's see what happens, but I still see us moving to Safaricom soon, coz the answers we're getting from our current provider sound like a fish screaming undersea.
Thanks anywayz, and you have my permission to hijack the thread further in appreciation ;)
2009/9/29 John Doe <fivepings@gmail.com>
@ aki Agreed. Let's be courteous to Mbuthia :-)
@ Mbuthia. As you keep checking on your link. Remember, you are the customer and the ISP should be able to prove to you that you are getting what you are paying for.i.e Graphs and other utilisation information should be readily available. But be careful that your test is set up to measure the link between you and ISP. Unless of course they are selling you a dedicated link between two clearly defined points.
@ net...MTU's wacha tuachie hapo kwa sasa.
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Net Net <bgp.peers@gmail.com> wrote:
@aki,
If ISPs could purchase 155Mbps because the clients need upto 155Mbps(not even factoring in the fact that Overhead bytes offer a payload roughly 140 Mbits/sec as @john says which I agree),the ISPs willnot be in business.Some ISPs TRULY offer dedicated bandwidth but they also capitalise on the fact that not all clients use up all their capacity at the same time,so they can comfortably balance their traffic + other traffic being local through IXP,makes them in business. If @simon has a good managed router,he can also check the traffic on the outside interfac of his router to be on the safe side Please I feel MTU willnot be relevant in this case
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 5:50 PM, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
@Tano-pings, I think we have hijacked Simon's thread and others may complain of being spammy. Letting it be for now. I can only imagine if we were SPs, his problems were resolved. :-)
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 5:27 PM, John Doe <fivepings@gmail.com> wrote:
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