[TriLUG] OT - TWC bandwidth caps - Earthlink

[Jason Watts]

Gotcha... I thought the overusedness was across the board, and not primarily
at their gateways.

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 12:37 PM, <jonc at nc.rr.com> wrote:

> Earthlink users ride on TimeWarner cable to their facilities. That doesn't
> mean that Earthlink users go out the same internet gateways and routers - or
> that their inbound traffic goes through any of TimeWarners gateways. The
> major cost of Bandwidth is maintaining that high-bandwidth interconnect to
> the internet. Local on-net traffic is a thousands times cheaper.
>
> The Cable is a data roadway. While TWC maintains that road and also sells
> services that use that road, other carriers also use those roads and sell
> their services along the way. If your services stay local to that road, the
> cost of delivery is very cheap.
>
> FeatureTel is on-net with TWC and about 40% of our customers travel through
> TWC's infrastructure to get to our servers. The latency is low and the
> quality good, because none of the traffic to/from us has to pass through any
> of TWC's over-used internet gateways.
>
> Jon Carnes
>
> ---- Alan Porter <porter at trilug.org> wrote:
> >
> > > But, if earthlink is on TWC's infrastructure, then Earthlink must be
> paying
> > > TWC for their network right? so, wouldn't TWC charge earthlink more or
> quite
> > > possibly some metered system like TWC will to its customers?  thus
> causing
> > > EL to hand the cost down to EL customers?
> > >
> >
> > What TWC charges consumers has nothing to do with what they charge
> > Earthlink. I imagine they have an elaborate contract that details who
> > pays who for what, and that won't change just because of a new pricing
> > scheme for consumers.
> >
> > Alan
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > .
> >
> >
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