Question about bandwidth

[The Whole F/N Show]

Bandwidth is the amount of data you can push through your internet connection. A T1 has more bandwidth than a 28.8k modem.

That's like saying a Ferrari is a nicer car than a Pinto.

 

[daemon]

OK for all those computer geeks out there.

A T1 is equal to a maximum transfer rate of 1.54 megabits per second.

A T3 is equal to a maximum transfer rate of 45 megabits per second.

There also much larger pipes like DS3's and OC3's.

A T1 would cost on average about 1K a month, a T3 a little more than twice that (I think).As you use or buy more bandwidth is will cost you more. Though you do gain economies of scale as you get larger.

I would think that this site is hosted on a T3 or larger, but that is only an assumption. The number of boards isn't really the factor it's the number of posts on the entire board. Posts with pictures generally take up more than 10 to 50 times as much bandwidth.

Pebcak

Pulling a number out of my ass, a T3 would be around $30,000. Quite a bit more than twice a T1.

Most likely George has Elite hosted in a datacenter. The datacenter would have multiple incoming connections (I.E. OC12) which they would then split over thier entire customer base. Data centers usually charge by 95th percentile which means they sample how much bandwidth your using every 5 minutes or so. At the end of the month they drop the top 5% of your usage and the remaining number is how much bandwidth you "use".

To answer the original question, no, the amount of boards does not use more bandwidth. Nor does linking to pictures hosted at external sites.

 

[Pebcak]

Pulling a number out of my ass, a T3 would be around $30,000. Quite a bit more than twice a T1.

Daemon, is that 30K/month or /year? Like I said before I would have no idea how much it would go for,

Pebcak

 

[Warik]

but doesn't it take up more bandwidth to have all these different boards?

No... the same bandwidth would be used up even if we only had one board. The other boards are more for organizational reasons than they are for bandwidth.

-Warik

 

[Code]

Want actual bandwidth numbers?
A T1 is literally 24 telephone lines, or a trunk. 1.54Mb per second.
T2 is a T1 squared, 2.3Mb/s
A T3 is a T1 cubed, 44.7Mb/s

An OC-3 is the optical equivelant of a T3 (in terms of physical lines) 155 Mb/s.

No one has gone above an OC-192 9.95Gb/s.
The largest available commercial pipe is an OC-48, 2.48Gb/s

The moron who compared a T1 to a modem is a just that, a moron. I would doubt he knew the intristic difference between UDP and TCP, nor able to recognize either in an octet stream.

Oh BTW, a T3 is 45K a year.

 

[tbod1]

Hey you bandwidth gurus might can verify this for me. A buddy of mine works at an internet service (nuvox I think). He said his buddy that works with him has charter pipeline cable modem. He said the dude hacked into some login file that charter gets from your computer everytime you log on and he changed some code on it that limited his bandwidth. He said he was gettin around 10mb/sec now. Does this sound possible?

 

[Warik]

Tell me this isn't a quote from Sean Connery in Finding Forrester?

http://www.yourethemannowdog.com/

 

[Code]

There;s no reason to hack the client machine to do this, it can be done faster and easier at the ISP's router.

Many many ISPs limit bandwidth.

But here are some interesting factors one should consider:

You are only as fast as your slowest component. For most people this is the NIC card, which is 100Mb/s (in some cases it's 10Mb/s). Although those with older PC's will find that their entire system is limited to 29Mb/s, which is the speed of their motherboard.