20 Sep
2004
20 Sep
'04
3:31 p.m.
Hadn't it gotten to the point shortly before Cidera folded that the satellite bandwidth was so insufficient for a "full feed" that it was of questionable value?...or was it still fine if you wanted a usenet feed with no binaries?
Probably. Yes. IIRC, a full feed of usenet (3 years ago) was approx 250GB+ per day. The overwhelming majority of that was multi-part binaries. Cut them out and you should have plenty of room across the transponder, which (again, 3 years ago) was capable of DS3 capacity. I haven't had the misfortune of dealing with usenet feeds since then, so I'm unfamiliar with the requirements of nntp peering today. -J.