Re: [cobalt-users] A Word About Cobaltracks.Com and Bandwidth Usage

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From: "Marc Gear" <marcg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 6:28 AM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] A Word About Cobaltracks.Com and Bandwidth Usage


> > In a given month if you fully utilized your bandwidth...
etc.
> I get a steady 49 Kilobytes/second from cobaltracks.
> 49 Kb a sec over a period of a minute is 2.87Mb/min
> that over an hour is 172.2Mb/Hr
> Over a day that is about 4.04Gb
> Allowing 28 days in a month you i could transfer 113Gb.
>
> My excess bandwidth costs to cobaltracks for this would be about $170.
> This is dead cheap. However, if i had a mission critical enterprise that
was
> likley to do 51Gb of transfer a month i would probably not be hosting it
> with a company that charged me only $99 a month.
>
> I have no problem with cobaltracks, i'd love it to be faster, but it
serves
> its purpose, which for me is a cheap 'playbox'
> --
> /\/\ a R (

When I look at CobaltRacks, I see about 30 Kbps looking with WS_Ping ProPak.
Sometimes. What do the rest of you see from your servers? Also
http://visualroute.visualware.com/ is useful for seeing a bit of info when
the packet loss is high.

Arthur