Re: calculating bandwidth requirements
>> Having said that, is there some rough guide to calculating the mimimum
>> bandwidth required to support a given number of users with 56K
connections
>> to my machine ?
Look at your own ip-stats when you're surfing.
>feed. That is a T1 in and of itself. Just grab the groups that are
>requested and tell the people up front they have to request news groups
Isn't there a news "proxy" (a news server, that grabs the news fromanother
one, when they're requested)?
>approximately when it will be there. Hrm... Oh, and definately,
definately
>setup a proxy and insist that your users use it whenever possible. I run a
>small lan here at home and my proxy does get hit often enough to help and
>that is only with me and my parents on the network. If you get ~20 people
>dialing in chances are a lot of sites will be hit repeatedly. Like the
>comic syndicates, pages they email to one another, etc.
Yes, that's right. Can't one force the users to use theproxy at port
80/8080?
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