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Re: [cobalt-users] Here is a good question....



Upstream = uploading FROM the RaQ
Downstream = downloading TO the RaQ

When clients connect to the webserver this would nbe upstream as the RaQ
is sending them the pages.

--Neil

On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, WebMost wrote:

> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 11:52:11 -0500
> From: WebMost <rdavis@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Here is a good question....
> 
> Ahoy
> 
> Can you please clarify what you mean by upstream/downstream?
> 
> Aloha
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Euliano <jime@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 10:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Here is a good question....
> 
> 
> >>alternative to co-locating for small domains... and the cost for ADSL is
> >>allot lower then a T1.
> >
> >There shouldn't be any problem at all putting a Raq on an ADSL line.  ADSL
> >will provide the same top level TCP/IP availability as any network line.
> >The problem with ADSL is, as its name states, that it is asynchronis.  It
> >is a lot slower upstream then it is downstream.  I would say 99% of our
> >Raq's use is upstream traffic... making the slowest part of your ADSL line
> >the heaviest part used by the Raq.
> >
> >If that isn't a problem and you have plenty of bandwidth (can you ever
> >really have enough?), then a Raq would work fine.  If not, and you still
> >want the savings, check out SDSL.  It is the big brother to ADSL and will
> >give you faster speeds in both directions for about $500 cheaper per month
> >then a T1.  Of course, those are prices relative to my area, your results
> >may differ.
> >
> >Jim 
> >
> >
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