> The Cable Wallah's actually want you to be ISP's for your own LAN's,
> Juggling their cheap bandwidth with more reliable ISDN/leased lines.
> Something that Cogent(I think) does for many US ISP's provide cheap
> bandwidth which they can juggle around with more reliable providers.
> Why you get a 200Kbps at night is because cable wallah allots a IANA
> private IP pool (Subnet) for a building and restricts bandwidth for the
> whole pool(I think).
> Why CableWallah's provide cheap bandwidth is because of low NOC/Helpdesk
> costs which are significant part of the whole product for a big ISP.
In case of hotwire, actually none of this is really true. Hotwire is run by
a big ISP (Primus) and it does have a proper helpdesk/NOC. My connection is
capped at 64k, but at times the cap wud not work properly (mainly due to
misconfiguration at the isp end) and i wud get 100-200kbytes/sec transfer
(which is in the 1-2mbps range).....
Unlike normal ethernet isps, who just resell their bw, i actually have a
public ip and that ip does get resolved using reverse dns. something that
even vsnl has problems with. With IRC, u need a ip that has a proper reverse
dns to connect to a lot of servers, so that is important.
I see that most of these ethernet based isps use some kind of a linux based
router that has a web config screen for the admin. they cap the bw to 32k or
64k depending on how much u pay and then give u ips that are behind a nat.
Where I work, we have such a system, and after a recent sw upgrade at the
isp/reseller's end ftp has stopped working :( The guy at their end is
totally clueless as to why this is happening, and when u tell him that it is
a matter of loading the ftp module, his goes into a spin!
Ambar
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