[sldev] Cache speed experiment & results...

Tateru Nino tateru.nino at gmail.com
Fri Jun 6 04:21:45 PDT 2008



ordinal.malaprop at fastmail.fm wrote:
>
> On 6 Jun 2008, at 06:46, Jason Giglio wrote:
>
>> Argent Stonecutter wrote:
>>> On 2008-06-04, at 00:04, Jason Giglio wrote:
>>>> I'm all for metered bandwidth.
>>>
>>> I don't think "metered bandwidth" is a good term. Bandwidth is "how
>>> much you can transmit per unit of time", and is metered in units of
>>> bits-per-second. My bandwidth is capped to 256 kilobits per second,
>>> for example. This is good enough to play SL, but not enough to stream
>>> HD movies (or stream anything while I'm playing SL).
>>>
>>> What we're talking about here needs a different term. It's not a
>>> bandwidth cap, it's a total traffic cap.
>>
>>
>> I don't know what you are talking about, but what I'm talking about is
>> metered bandwidth.
>>
>> I.e. 0.1 cents per meg + $5/month as an example.  Like every other
>> utility service known to man, in other words.
>>
>> Your water company does not turn off your water if you use over a
>> certain amount, they just charge you more.  Internet service should be
>> no different.
>
> I think that what he is talking about is that what is being referred 
> to here and elsewhere as "bandwidth" is not bandwidth, but quantity of 
> data transferred.
>
"Bandwidth" is confusingly used to mean "bandwidth consumption" which, I 
believe, is what is actually being referred to in this discussion.


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