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Re: standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses
From: Jim Mercer <jim () reptiles org>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:49:24 -0400
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:37:32PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:17:01 EDT, shsu () HydroOne com said:Hi, is there a standard or a practice on how much IP addresses an ISP should provide to his/her client given that this client has bought only 2Mb of bandwidth and this client is an ISP?Umm.. don't bother. Let's think this through. 2Mbits/sec of bandwidth will only sustain about 40 56KB modems doing a simultaneous download. Even adding in think time and the like, a /24 should be plenty wide enough.
nice fantasy land you live in. in the real world, i'm seeing as much as 32 E1 PRI's (960 lines) connected by a single 2mbit internet circuit. that may be crowded to some people on the list, but it is not unrealistic in some regions.
The *BIG* question is how the ISP intends to make any money at that scale. Figuring even a 10X overcommitment, that's 400 customers at $20/mo or so, for an inbound cash flow of only $8K/month, with which they get to pay their bandwidth charge, their tech support, and everything else.
the BIG question is does the ISP have the bankroll to get going, but that is way off topic here. the economics of building an ISP are different from region to region. -- [ Jim Mercer jim () reptiles org +1 416 410-5633 ] [ Now with more and longer words for your reading enjoyment. ]
Current thread:
- standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses shsu (Jun 12)
- Re: standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses Nick Thompson (Jun 12)
- Re: standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses Christopher A. Woodfield (Jun 12)
- Re: standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 12)
- Re: standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses Jim Mercer (Jun 12)
- Re: standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses Bruce Robertson (Jun 12)
- Re: standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses Kevin Loch (Jun 12)
- Re: standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses up (Jun 12)
- Re: standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses Josh Richards (Jun 12)
- Re: standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 12)
- RE: standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses John Crain (Jun 12)
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- RE: standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses Martin, Christian (Jun 12)
- Re: standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses Austin Schutz (Jun 15)
- Re: standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses up (Jun 16)
- Re: standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses Charles Scott (Jun 16)
- Re: standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses Austin Schutz (Jun 15)