[MLB-WIRELESS] xDSL to Node GHO

[Jamie Lovick]

Hi,

On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Matt Pearce wrote:
>
> The idea in principle is a good one, however from memory you can get
> a 1500/256 connection for $120-$146 per month at the moment and
> thats unlimited so the price doesnt really look viable considering
> there is not internet access or data paid for.  This would also mean
> that whoever pays for this sort of link would either have to get
> another internet connection or would have to get a huge bill for
> interent access.  Neither of which are very appealing considering
> other current deals out there.

The general idea would be that the regional groups (such as Melbourne
Wireless) would cover the cost as a group cost (your membership dollars
working hard), or an agreed fee. This may be raised by sponsorship or
whatever. It is hoped that once AWAi finishes re-structuring and becomes
more of an industry association, sponsorship may cover some of this sort
of thing.

Another thing to remember about "unlimited" xDSL services is that they
have very high contention ratios, possibly of 100:1 or more. This means
that you'll never really get the full benifit of the link, compared to a
straight tail.

> On a slightly different note, if this took off and say 5 people on
> MW who were all linked wirelesses and had ADSL connections, would it
> be possible to use all 5 connections to send and recieve the same
> requests ??  ie split the data being sent and recieved amonst all 5
> connections so as to get the best throughput ??
> 
> Thoughts or comments on this to ??

Load balancing can be done in many ways, either via route distribution
(best of route) or actual traffic management based on performance. It is
generally quite difficult to set up well, and the performance benifits
may not be worth the effort. It's probably still worth playing with if
people are interested, as a link is better than no link at all. Using
things like iiNet's bliink zone would be good within the state, as it is
zero cost between sites, but the contention ratio still would be
high. Also, as you mentioned, the only effective way is to have a second
link.

Regards

Jamie

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