[AusNOG] Comindico routing

[Paul Jones]

Daniel Thoroughgood wrote:
> From what I understand TPG use their proxy more for segregating
> bandwidth than they do for caching.
>
> As I understand the proxies are on ranges that are advertised to the
> "good" bandwidth supply so that customers browsing remains relatively
> unaffected regardless of how hard they run the "bad" bandwidth supply.

Could have fooled me! A few weeks ago the proxy farm used to basically 
grind to a halt during the evening, but I had no trouble getting speeds 
in excess of 1200 kB/sec via ftp from Europe

I guess as always, you get what you pay for, but some of us have no choice!