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OSL Gets Bandwidth Donation from TDS
kveton writes "The OSL is pleased to announce that TDS Telecom has donated 600 Mbits of connectivity in order to ramp up their mirror infrastructure. The projects hosted at the OSL can now upload to the mirrors co-located in the TDS facilities in Chicago and Atlanta via their main data center in Corvallis, OR."
You seem to have mistakenly assumed Gbit/s instead of Mbit/s!
600Mbit/s is not a huge thing to have.
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Yeah, you're right. It's 2:30am, so insert sleep deprived excuse here... On the other hand, that's still a $40million/year donation and that does seem more reasonable.
No, I'm not saying that. But ever since they started capping home subscribers' broadband connection to anywhere between 10 and 100 Gig/month, some ISP's have started charging an additional $20 per GB. You probably won't hear much about it though, see all we're a pretty complacent culture here Canada.
That's still too much. I'd say by a factor of 1000 at least.
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Gigabit to Megabit is a factor of 1000... am I missing something?
$20 for an extra GB of traffic? Those are insane rates...
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Yes, your initial calculations assumed $20 / Gbyte of traffic. That is just unrealistic. By that measure even as a home user I'd be paying thousands of dollars a month.
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No, it's still unreasonable. an OC-3 (155 Megabits/second) can be had for $10-20,000 a month, so it's closer to $40-80,000 a month, $1 million/year max.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
I have 1 Gigabit just for a single laptop in my apartment (in Japan). Mind you, not that I ever really get to use it. My PC can't manage more than about 5% utilization before it starts thrashing its disk and grinding to a halt. P2P takes on a whole new dimension when you can download an entire divx'd DVD in 5 minutes.
They're going to need all that bandwith when they get slashdotted.
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Billed bandwidth rate is usually measured at the 95% percentile. That means that your carrier takes samples throughout the day of the current TX/RX rate, and throws away the highest 5%. The 95% highest sample is what you're billed for the month. This means you can briefly burst traffic, and be billed less than if you were billed at the highest (100%) rate.
So, 600mb/sec sustained (so that the 95% is 600) would work out to about 148TB. Even with 30% for headers, protocol overhead, etc, you're still talking ~100TB of data sent out (or into) the world.
Usual pricing for 1mb/sec is (in the San Jose area) between $200/$150 for low volume (1-5mb) customers. For those who buy many hundreds of mb, you can get a much better deal, certainly under 100$ a meg.
So, 600mb would cost about $600,000 a month, probably much less.
Possibly off-topic, but so many headlines recently use acronyms for things which are possibly unfamiliar, and don't provide a link on the Acronym to the homepage or an entry about whatever-it-is. Some of the stories are starting to look like the old joke, "You got a you-know-what from you-know-who, and you're supposed to take it to you-know-where by you-know when. Wink Wink. Nudge Nudge."
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It's nice to know that Jon Stewart is such a fan of bandwidth. Is he doing this so we can transmit more Bush jokes?
... and then they built the supercollider.
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All good news, but, what happens when a new distro needs some hosting and bandwidth?
I've provided some limited hosting to a new distro (which I dare not mention here) and the cost of dealing with several hundred ISO downloads a day is pretty expensive.
Suggestions?
Gee, that was really cheap. Most of us use more than 600Mbit in a few seconds. OHHHH! perhaps you meant Mbps, not Mbit......
> some ISP's have started charging an additional $20 per GB
What?! It'd be cheaper to buy the damned movies at that price. Uh..I mean...post...letters...to my grandma.....
The place where my server's colocated charges me EUR0.65/GByte, and I'm pretty sure that this is not all that cheap (but this is irrelevant for the amount of bandwidth I use).
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To all the posters claiming this a gift of hundreds of thousands of dollars to millions of dollars per month -- you're wrong. 600mbit is a decent commit level, and in a true datacenter, they'll be able to provide that without blinking. Depending on the quality of bandwidth (aka, who people peer with), it will cost them between $20 and $40 per mbit/sec. They don't charge by how much traffic you move. At this level, they don't care if you transfer 50GB or 500GB, it's all about how fast you move it. They would normaly bill customers at the 95%, not by overall transfer stats. That means these guys can push 600Mbit/sec inbound and outbound 24/7, and nobody will care. Of course, this is one hell of an amazing gift. It's just not nearly as high as people are claiming it is.
They donated a fast mirror to Sun Freeware, which makes all of us Sun jockey's breathe a little easier.
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What does the Ontario Soccer League need with all that bandwidth?
nothing
My district just got our 20mbps line put in and this thing flies. I download at around 4 megabytes per second. Thats a 100meg file in under a minute. Very generous and hope its used well.
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I agree the summary should have more context ...
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OSU OSL is Oregon State University Open Source Labs.
This is a project that manages infrastructure (machines, bandwidth) for many open source projects.
Their list of projects include Debian, Drupal, Gentoo, Mozilla and others
So, it is really good news, since the longevity of these projects are better (not that they were in danger or anything).
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The Open Source Lab currently hosts some of Freenode's north american servers.
I work for TDS Telecom as tech support in Madison, WI.. for the record, TDS Telecom SUCK as an ISP, trust me on this one. TDS Metrocom isn't nearly as bad but twice as disfunctional.
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