Re: (PM) Average bandwidth per dial-up port...

Doug Hardie (bc979@lafn.org)
Fri, 30 Apr 1999 21:36:43 -0700

At 18:29 -0700 4/30/99, Kevin Sawyer wrote:
>What is a good figure for the average amount of Internet (not local
>POP3/SMTP/HTTP) bandwidth needed per dial-up port? For example...if you had
>a full T-1 (1.54Mbps) for your SMTP/FTP/HTTP servers so that any other
>bandwidth (additional T-1s) would only be used for traffic to/from your
>dial-up ports, how much bandwidth would you need to service say 1,000 ports?
>Or, how many dial-up ports can you comfortably put against one T-1 if all
>that T-1 is servicing is those ports?
>
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Here is one data point:

We have 8 T1s for dial-in and one T1 to the internet. We only support
Email, http, https, ftp, and news. The T1 tends to run at about 75% busy
under heavy load. It all depends on what the users do with their
connections. Most of ours surf the web.

-- Doug

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