I spend more than 600 hours online per month in New Zealand, and I worked out the charges would approch 80,000 if I don't dial the new prefix.
This of course makes me spit blood over the fact that I have to change. I pitty the ISP's more who will have to re program modems and IPNet features, some approaching the cost of 500,000$ in help desk calls etc.
But Telecom in a way are right. I know if I wanted to dial 111 (emergency call equilavent to 911) I would want to get through, and not find out that the exchange is blocked by myself, or the 400,000 or so others that as well call ISP's for over 400 hours per month.
The article says MS "reach a peak of 3,771 requests/second and (Mbps) of throughput."
In the real world, bandwidth costs money! Hmmm let's see... how many web sites you know have pipes to the Internet that can handle that?? How many T3s is that? Another way to put 22.4 Megabits/second in perspective is that this load figure is in excess of just about every major web site except the big portals.
Have ever looked at the Ticker at webcrawer.com It shows what people are searching for and you would be surprised at what lame things are out there. Some people do infact search for "www.playboy.com" Check it out: http://webcrawler.com/SearchTicker.html
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I spend more than 600 hours online per month in New Zealand, and I worked out the charges would approch 80,000 if I don't dial the new prefix.
This of course makes me spit blood over the fact that I have to change.
I pitty the ISP's more who will have to re program modems and IPNet features, some approaching the cost of 500,000$ in help desk calls etc.
But Telecom in a way are right. I know if I wanted to dial 111 (emergency call equilavent to 911) I would want to get through, and not find out that the exchange is blocked by myself, or the 400,000 or so others that as well call ISP's for over 400 hours per month.
Just my view.
Rob
The article says MS "reach a peak of 3,771 requests/second and (Mbps) of throughput."
In the real world, bandwidth costs money!
Hmmm let's see... how many web sites you know have pipes to the Internet that can handle that?? How many T3s is that?
Another way to put 22.4 Megabits/second in perspective is that this load figure is in excess of just about every major web site except the big portals.
Yahoo.com (167 million pages/day)
ie (((167,000,000 / 24)/60)/60) = 1932 (approx)
so they are serving 2000pages/sec, NT can handle 3771 req/sec (pages I assume)
Damn even Yahoo dosen't need the system they are running, sure like to meet the people that do!
If the "wide links = no" was set correctly as others have said, maybe Linux might have reached that 2000pages/sec
Have ever looked at the Ticker at webcrawer.com
It shows what people are searching for and you would be surprised at what lame things are out there.
Some people do infact search for
"www.playboy.com"
Check it out:
http://webcrawler.com/SearchTicker.html