We have MRTG set up to monitor traffic on a per-port basis on the DSLAM. So we will know pretty quick if any user's traffic is widely different from that of our other users.
We are just starting out -- so we don't have experience to draw upon in terms of the bandwidth that our subscribers will use, and how close it will come to filling our T1. So at first, we will throttle down most of the DSL modem ports to 200K. Later after we have some experience we hope to raise the speed limits.
We begged and begged Qwest to bring DSL to our neighborhood. And we begged and begged the cable company (TCI/AT&T) to bring in cable modem. It fell on deaf ears.
We are served by a SLC and Qwest hasn't figured out yet how to do DSL in a SLC.
Our Coop is running on a shoestring, actually. Bought our DSLAM and DSL modems used on eBay.
The nice thing about the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is that others can "opt in" to the agreement that resulted from our litigation. So the next neighborhood who wants to do this won't need lawyers as we did.
I actually think of myself more as a "mere engineer" than as high powered or media savvy.
It's a T1, no doubt about it. See our MRTG report at http://www.patents.com/mrtg/dillon3.html . Our T1 pipe is full just now, for the first time in many months.
No, our webserver is nowhere near to being busy. The bottleneck just now (see http://www.patents.com/mrtg/dillon3.html ) is our T1 line. You will see our T1 line, normally never anywhere near full, is quite full, I expect trying to keep up with all of the SlashDot visitors.
There is only one patent lawyer named Carl Oppedahl, and I am he. But I think you are saying things about me that aren't true. I invite you to cite to someplace where I said "the current patent system is just swell." I don't believe I have ever said that, and in fact I have often talked about how the current patent system needs improvement.
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We have MRTG set up to monitor traffic on a per-port basis on the DSLAM. So we will know pretty quick if any user's traffic is widely different from that of our other users.
We are just starting out -- so we don't have experience to draw upon in terms of the bandwidth that our subscribers will use, and how close it will come to filling our T1. So at first, we will throttle down most of the DSL modem ports to 200K. Later after we have some experience we hope to raise the speed limits.
We begged and begged Qwest to bring DSL to our neighborhood. And we begged and begged the cable company (TCI/AT&T) to bring in cable modem. It fell on deaf ears. We are served by a SLC and Qwest hasn't figured out yet how to do DSL in a SLC.
Our Coop is running on a shoestring, actually. Bought our DSLAM and DSL modems used on eBay. The nice thing about the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is that others can "opt in" to the agreement that resulted from our litigation. So the next neighborhood who wants to do this won't need lawyers as we did. I actually think of myself more as a "mere engineer" than as high powered or media savvy.
It's a T1, no doubt about it. See our MRTG report at http://www.patents.com/mrtg/dillon3.html . Our T1 pipe is full just now, for the first time in many months.
No, our webserver is nowhere near to being busy. The bottleneck just now (see http://www.patents.com/mrtg/dillon3.html ) is our T1 line. You will see our T1 line, normally never anywhere near full, is quite full, I expect trying to keep up with all of the SlashDot visitors.
There is only one patent lawyer named Carl Oppedahl, and I am he. But I think you are saying things about me that aren't true. I invite you to cite to someplace where I said "the current patent system is just swell." I don't believe I have ever said that, and in fact I have often talked about how the current patent system needs improvement.