AOL and BSD

Brian Somers brian at freebsd-services.com
Thu Oct 11 18:18:25 BST 2001


> On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 05:07:30PM +0100, Paul Civati wrote:
> > Josef Karthauser <joe at tao.org.uk> wrote:
> >=20
> > > It's a different kind of service.  Compare the amount of static ip
> > > addresses and the delivery mechanism.  The easynet one comes with an
> > > IP/ethernet router.
> >=20
> > I guess they also don't throttle your traffic. ;)
> >=20
> >   http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/22137.html
> 
> No they don't.  I can easily saturate the line.  (512k).
> They also don't do any kind of transparent NAT or filtering in the
> background.

I can saturate my 2Mb line too - quite impressive.  I'm also connected
 to the same ATM network as Joe (which I find bizarre):

$ traceroute router.tao.org.uk
traceroute to router.tao.org.uk (212.135.162.49), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  router.Awfulhak.org (217.204.245.17)  1.296 ms  1.515 ms  1.059 ms
 2  router.tao.org.uk (212.135.162.49)  41.719 ms  42.182 ms  42.120 ms

I live in Amersham (North West London) and Joe's in Brighton...!

> Joe

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