On Aug 2, 2011, at 9:56 PM, Mark Newton wrote: > > On 03/08/2011, at 1:20 PM, Jima wrote: > >> Alas, I will maintain that any household that multi-homes at this stage is, >> indeed, abnormal. > > > I'll go out on a limb and suggest that most people loathe their telcos with > an undying venomous passion, and can think of nothing worse than dealing with > any more of them than they do now. > > Widespread multihoming might be technically pure, but I reckon most customers > would rather eat their firstborns than take up the option.
There are likely a few orders of magnitude more people who have more than one internet service available at the same time at home then there are people with two bgp speaking peers. there are 38453 ASes that appear in the DFZ this week and I don't see that number growing to 1 billion anytime soon. > - mark > > -- > Mark Newton Email: new...@internode.com.au (W) > Network Engineer Email: new...@atdot.dotat.org (H) > Internode Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82282999 > "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223 > > > > > > >
