[clug] Transact whinge, was "broadband ISPs in Canberra"

[Andrew Smith]

On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 21:34, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> I think poor ISPs would have a heart attack if they had to service 2M
> customers. Crikey, it wouldn't take too many to saturate their own link to
> the Internet...

Actually the outbound data would only be a fraction of their inbound. 
The proportion of users running web services with a high average data
flow would be tiny compared to the "iso junkies".
 
> TransACT like to charge you to run a cable in their datacentre...

Hmm, that Cat5 is expensive stuff.

Andrew