mdurkin
join:1999-08-11
San Bruno, CA
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Re: AOL has the right! - bingo yes they do!
said by Jerm  :
I think some people don't fully understand what was happening in this situation.
Cogent customers were downloading much more from AOL sites (ie CNN) than AOL users were downloading from Cogent (which hosts what? not much).
That's exactly opposite of where peering disputes arise. The ISP that receives more traffic wants to get paid. So AOL users would be downloading more from Cogent. It has to do with the fact that most ISPs use hot potato routing, ie. Cogent would handoff their outbound traffic destined for AOL customers as soon as possible and AOL winds up hauling it across country (and there are technical pluses to doing that since it tends to reduce the chance you will go from SF to NY and back to SF... AOL has much more detail about where its own customers ultimately are than can be practically exchanged via BGP), as well as the fact that ISPs can get more money for webhost bandwidth than they can for access bandwidth. |
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Jerm
join:2000-04-10
Richland, WA |  Your right...
I'm slightly lisdexic (dislexic) and type it backwards even though I meant the other way around! |
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