Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!cs.utexas.edu!natinst!bigtex!james
From: james@bigtex.uucp (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: uunet, billing, overload ?
Message-ID: <5400@bigtex.uucp>
Date: 5 Aug 88 07:28:14 GMT
References: <31240@philabs.Philips.Com> <379@uport.UUCP> <10352@ncc.Nexus.CA> <1917@stpstn.UUCP> <1988Jul28.165953.6782@utzoo.uucp> <1951@stpstn.UUCP>
Reply-To: james@bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen)
Organization: F.B.N. Software, Austin TX
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In article <1951@stpstn.UUCP>, aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri) wrote:
> [...]  I don't know that I could get the company to spend the $$ for a
> Trailblazer only on the promise of eventual recovery of the cost.

If they won't buy fairly simple arithmetic on TB+ cost savings when
getting a full news feed from uunet, I can't imagine how the *rather*
murky benefits of the net at 2400bps ever justified the feed in the
first place!

> The discussion of TB's that I've seen seems to indicate that
> they're quite good on non-perfect lines, and I interpolate this to mean that
> they should work fine with MCI, etc...  Our regional phone company is SNET.

Well...  I've announced anonymous uucp downloads on my TB+ and have
had a number of people call in.  And I've seen some remarkably bad
transfer rates.  The vast majority of calls do stay near 9600bps (max
rate bigtex can talk to the TB+), but a fair number get throughputs
down in the 300-400cps range.  Of the people I've later contacted,
most were using Uncle Joe's Quick & Dirty long distance.  A couple of
sites called back later on AT&T and got reasonable transfer rates

The point is that "saving" money buy not getting a TB+ may not make
any economic sense, and "saving" 10% on LD may not make sense if you
take a 50% hit in throughput.  In addition, uunet has WATS call-out
ability and 800 numbers for calling in, and these are quite cheap.
None of my long distance discount plans are nearly as cheap as uunet's
800 number charges...
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