What does 95th %tile mean?
David Schwartz
davids at webmaster.com
Sat Apr 21 15:52:45 UTC 2001
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 09:52:15PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote:
> > providing me with news, since they need to get news to their
> > news server.
> > But if they charged me the full cost of 14Mbps, we simply wouldn't get
> > a newsfeed from them, and they would have lost that business.
> So you'd get your newsfeed from somebody else, transfer it across the
> WAN, and get charged for it anyway.
Hardly. We would have obtained our news feed from someone else who has a
news server at a facility where we already colocate a router. But having
this provider offer us a newsfeed at a fair price allowed us to save a
cross-connect fee.
DS
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