RE: What does 95th %tile mean?

["David Schwartz" <davids () webmaster com>]

> On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 09:52:15PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote:
> >  providing me with news, since they need to get news to their
> > news server.
> > But if they charged me the full cost of 14Mbps, we simply wouldn't get
> > a newsfeed from them, and they would have lost that business.

> So you'd get your newsfeed from somebody else, transfer it across the
> WAN, and get charged for it anyway.

        Hardly. We would have obtained our news feed from someone else who has a
news server at a facility where we already colocate a router. But having
this provider offer us a newsfeed at a fair price allowed us to save a
cross-connect fee.

        DS