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Tuesday, November 26, 2002 by Jafo | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
This is, in fact a massive site with very heavy demands, costing thousands of dollars per month in bandwidth and is very definitely not on a 28.8k modem...
Please refrain from your colourful language as well. It's not acceptable.
Thankyou.
Please refrain from your colourful language as well. It's not acceptable.
Thankyou.
Jafo
Reply #3 Tuesday, November 26, 2002 9:13 PM
Reply #3 Tuesday, November 26, 2002 9:13 PM
WOM...
https://www.wincustomize.com/msgboard.asp?id=79237#79655
If I'm not mistaken, a T1 is a pipe big enough to push 1.5 megs per second through, so 6 T1s would be 9 megs per second, or enough of a pipe to download the entire Windows 95 OS in 10 seconds.
A 56k modem is good for maybe 5 or 6 kilobytes per second, or is 1,500 times smaller than what the 'visitors' use to drain our resources...or would take over 4 hours to dl the Win95...
https://www.wincustomize.com/msgboard.asp?id=79237#79655
If I'm not mistaken, a T1 is a pipe big enough to push 1.5 megs per second through, so 6 T1s would be 9 megs per second, or enough of a pipe to download the entire Windows 95 OS in 10 seconds.
A 56k modem is good for maybe 5 or 6 kilobytes per second, or is 1,500 times smaller than what the 'visitors' use to drain our resources...or would take over 4 hours to dl the Win95...
Koasati
Reply #4 Tuesday, November 26, 2002 9:19 PM
Reply #4 Tuesday, November 26, 2002 9:19 PM
and my modem would take 8.365 hours to download Win95... 
WOM
Reply #5 Tuesday, November 26, 2002 9:19 PM
Reply #5 Tuesday, November 26, 2002 9:19 PM
Read the other thread already, thanks. I understand now, my 56k downloads at 3.25 kilobytes per second. Man, they sure are sucking the juice, aren't they. 
Jafo
Reply #6 Tuesday, November 26, 2002 9:28 PM
Reply #6 Tuesday, November 26, 2002 9:28 PM
Every now and then, there is a thread complaining about costs, etc...and the ones assuming the site is in someone's bedroom on a P100 with 16 meg of ram and a 28k modem....
Gosh...I have a 2400 modem somewhere [2.4k]...maybe I could host Wincusto AND DevART as well on THAT!!!!
Wincustomize.com is bigger than any domestic enterprise could handle, certainly costs more to pump out than my annual income...
Gosh...I have a 2400 modem somewhere [2.4k]...maybe I could host Wincusto AND DevART as well on THAT!!!!
Wincustomize.com is bigger than any domestic enterprise could handle, certainly costs more to pump out than my annual income...
Hell Dragon
Reply #7 Tuesday, November 26, 2002 9:35 PM
Reply #7 Tuesday, November 26, 2002 9:35 PM
A T1 is 1.544 Mbps (megabits) per second.
So 9 of them would be 13.8Mbps, and that equates to around 1.7MB per second.
So 9 of them would be 13.8Mbps, and that equates to around 1.7MB per second.
Hell Dragon
Reply #8 Tuesday, November 26, 2002 9:38 PM
Reply #8 Tuesday, November 26, 2002 9:38 PM
sorry... should have only calculated for 6 T1 lines, so that would be 1.1MB per second
Hell Dragon
Reply #10 Tuesday, November 26, 2002 9:58 PM
Reply #10 Tuesday, November 26, 2002 9:58 PM
Jafo, it's megaBITS per second not megaBYTES per second... so divide by 8 to get the final figure - that's how I got 1.1MB per second
Jafo
Reply #11 Tuesday, November 26, 2002 10:05 PM
Reply #11 Tuesday, November 26, 2002 10:05 PM
Oh...same difference...just divide the whole thread by 8, then...
Hell Dragon
Reply #12 Tuesday, November 26, 2002 10:12 PM
Reply #12 Tuesday, November 26, 2002 10:12 PM
check out this link: http://home.rochester.rr.com/interceptor/data.html plenty of interesting facts & figures in there. 
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Reply #1 Tuesday, November 26, 2002 8:57 PM
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