Re: New Peering Point Mailing Lists

[Adrian Chadd <adrian () creative net au>]

On Wed, Oct 11, 2000, Simon Lockhart wrote:
> > BTW, it would be *real* good if the NAP's and ISP's can provide more
> > traffic statistics. It may help the customers to decide where and whom
> > to join, and help people who want to have a better understanding about
> > the network. I recall we used to have more traffic data a few years ago,
> > now, there is almost none in US. Currently, from what I have seen
> > recently, NORDUnet (http://www.nordu.net/) is the best ISP by far that
> > provides detailed traffic information.... 
>
> I think you'll find that there's a few that are open (e.g. Abovenet 
> http://www.above.net/traffic/ and ourselves [although we're not US based] 
> http://support.bbc.co.uk/support/mrtg/internet/). A lot of the big 
> corporates consider it confidential information (it gives away how 
> good/bad they are or something).

.. if it was good, there'd be press releases every week with it.

*snigger* ok, so I found that funny. :-)

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Adrian Chadd                    "If a butterfly flaps its wings in China,
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