Xmission bandiwdth policy (was Re: [sllug-members]: When did SLLUG turn into SlashDot?)

[Corey Edwards]

On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 11:44 -0700, Mac Newbold wrote:
> UTOPIA accounts have 100GB/month quota due to UTOPIA, not due to XMission, 
> and UTOPIA doesn't give exemptions for off peak hours or anything like 
> that, and UTOPIA has to carry your traffic to your ISP whether it goes out 
> of the ISP or not, so there's no distinction between in-network and 
> out-of-network bandwidth usage for them.

Infrastructurally speaking, that's the same way that Qwest DSL is set up
too. Your DSL modem connects to a Qwest DSLAM which trunks all your data
out to a router which sends it over to your ISPs router. That's all
before it gets to the Internet or even to the ISPs network. So for two
Xmission Qwest DSL users to communicate, Xmission's Internet links won't
be used but it has to traverse the entire Qwest DSL network twice (once
in, once out). It's just nice that Qwest doesn't charge any sort of
bandwidth premium like UTOPIA apparently does. I hope with the FCC's
deregulation of DSL last year that doesn't become a reality. Kinda
strange that in this case Qwest is being the good guy, eh?

Corey