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Chrysalis · 07-10-2005, 17:34

Paul I know since I have several servers located in various datacentre's, the average datacentre will have many gigE's running into it especially ones in america, like theplanet has over 20gig of transit available for its customers, in the uk many providers will have multiple gigs of transit also. The 100mbit ports do tend to be shared but they are fully burstable and it is unusual for a datacentre to be not equipped enough to max out the burst, usually the limiting factor isnt transit it is hardware capabilities, eg. a celeron with a realtek lan card is not going to hit 100mbit it will more likely be around half that. A example provider from the uk is openhosting here is a list of their transit.

Level(3) Communications - 1000 Mbps Fibre
Teleglobe - 1000 Mbps Fibre
Enta - 1000 Mbps Copper (soon)
Euroaccess (backup) - 100 Mbps
TSN (backup) - 100 Mbps
eXpress long range peering - 1000 Mbps

The enta is in place as I see traffic going through it.

concerning mailbox they seem to be years behind with whats been offered on that page, fasthosts have a terrible reputation and I wouldnt go near them.

07-10-2005, 17:34	#29
Chrysalis cf.mega poster Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 12,050	Re: ntl statement regarding recent proxy issues Paul I know since I have several servers located in various datacentre's, the average datacentre will have many gigE's running into it especially ones in america, like theplanet has over 20gig of transit available for its customers, in the uk many providers will have multiple gigs of transit also. The 100mbit ports do tend to be shared but they are fully burstable and it is unusual for a datacentre to be not equipped enough to max out the burst, usually the limiting factor isnt transit it is hardware capabilities, eg. a celeron with a realtek lan card is not going to hit 100mbit it will more likely be around half that. A example provider from the uk is openhosting here is a list of their transit. Level(3) Communications - 1000 Mbps Fibre Teleglobe - 1000 Mbps Fibre Enta - 1000 Mbps Copper (soon) Euroaccess (backup) - 100 Mbps TSN (backup) - 100 Mbps eXpress long range peering - 1000 Mbps The enta is in place as I see traffic going through it. concerning mailbox they seem to be years behind with whats been offered on that page, fasthosts have a terrible reputation and I wouldnt go near them.