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Re: How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?)
From: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall () ehsco com>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 00:07:40 -0700
I have a feeling providers will start managing/reducing the excess capacity headroom in their networks. And will start looking at ways to wring more money out of their current customers. Some rocket science accountant somewhere should be working on a way to maximize the chargable usage by just shifting the window bins back and forth until he finds the maximum.
This would work well for end-users. Buy outbound time on inbound-heavy networks, and vice-versa. Route updates are too slow to move the content around, otherwise a really savvy and cheap buyer could keep thier "current" server in the dark part of the planet full time and get excess bandwidth for next to nothing all day. -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
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- How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?) Sean Donelan (Apr 19)
- Re: How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?) Greg A. Woods (Apr 19)
- Re: How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?) Leo Bicknell (Apr 20)
- Re: How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?) Travis Pugh (Apr 20)
- Re: How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?) Greg A. Woods (Apr 20)
- Re: How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?) Mike Leber (Apr 20)
- Re: How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?) Travis Pugh (Apr 20)
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- Re: How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?) Sean Donelan (Apr 19)
- Re: How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?) Greg A. Woods (Apr 19)
- Re: How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?) Eric A. Hall (Apr 20)
- Re: How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?) Sean Donelan (Apr 19)
- Re: How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?) Greg Maxwell (Apr 20)
- Re: How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?) Greg A. Woods (Apr 20)
- Re: How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?) Richard A. Steenbergen (Apr 20)
- Re: How to game the system (was Re: What does 95th %tile mean?) Richard A. Steenbergen (Apr 20)