On Wed, Sep 17, 1997 at 12:44:00PM -0700, Vadim Antonov wrote:
At that point a pizza parlor owner says to himself "two out of every five of my customers are on the Internet. Perhaps I need a web page." And, suddenly, pizza on the Net makes a lot of sense and the traffic patterns shift. As the density grows to 90%, local traffic becomes dominant over distant traffic.
Georgaphically local, not topologically.
Precisely.
A *big* difference.
Unless we're willing to go back to regulated monopolies geographical locality makes little difference in overall traffic patterns.
How do you say "bullshit" in Russian? C'mon, Vadim. As the Net, and the Web in particular, grow more geographically dense -- IE: as there _is_ more local stuff for users to look at -- they _will_; people are natively more interested in that which is near to them geographically. And unless we unload that traffic from the backbones and the NAP's, _it_ will be what melts down the net. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth High Technology Systems Consulting Ashworth Designer Linux: Where Do You Want To Fly Today? & Associates ka1fjx/4 Crack. It does a body good. +1 813 790 7592 jra@baylink.com http://rc5.distributed.net NIC: jra3