Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 21:56:10 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: spork <spork@super-g.com> Cc: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <sysop@mixcom.com>, Vincent Poy <vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM>, isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TS Holy War (was Re: Some advice needed.) Message-ID: <16514.860907370@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 12 Apr 1997 20:07:01 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.95.970412200310.2196D-100000@super-g.inch.com>
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> But 200 customers is not an ISP, that's a hobby ;) You're clearly not very familiar with the rural ISP market. 200 is actually pretty good when you're trying to connect up folks in Podunk, Iowa. :-) Also, there seems to be a new phenomenon I've noticed more and more in the ISP market - ISPs which stay deliberately small, more sort of "internet access clubs" than anything else. They get to around 200-300 people and then *refuse* any new people, chosing instead to remain a small and manageable size. For some operators, all they want is a small community of users which generate enough revenue to keep the business going and pay the upstream provider's bills. More than that is only a hassle, and so they avoid it. In any case, I certainly take your point about the *general* merits of splitting things up, I simply wanted to also make the point that it's not always necessary and can, in fact, be more of a detriment to your operations if you don't actually need that much horsepower. Jordan
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