bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) (01/09/91)
In article <1991Jan08.140455.27471@nstar.rn.com> larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes: > >we bring in a backbone newsfeed of 1180 newsgroups - including >regional newgroups (ne, ca, sa, ucla, mi, fl, ont, can, eunet, etc) >and traffic here was running around 10 megs per day before the >holidays (yesterdays traffic was 14 megs). This brings up an interesting news-feed phenomenon -- I only get around 750 newsgroups -- and my traffic is usually (don't have the figures in front of me) somewhere around 8mb. 10-12mb is not at all uncommon. Right after the holiday break, one day was 15.5mb. It's interesting to see so much of a variation in what people are reporting for traffic. -- home: ...!{uunet,bloom-beacon,esegue}!world!unixland!bill bill@unixland.uucp Public Access Unix - Esix SYSVR3 508-655-3848(12/24) 508-651-8723(12/24/96-HST) 508-651-8733(12/24/96-PEP-V32) other: heiser@world.std.com
larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) (01/09/91)
bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes: >750 newsgroups -- and my traffic is usually (don't have the figures in >front of me) somewhere around 8mb. 10-12mb is not at all uncommon. >Right after the holiday break, one day was 15.5mb. >It's interesting to see so much of a variation in what people are reporting >for traffic. I guess the traffic depends on the quantity of newsgroups - as well as how far one is down the line (which would cause a larger paths line). When we were getting news from iuvax->news.nd.edu we were only picking up 10 or so different base groups - but since we've switched to the university of michigan - we now get around 30.. I guess some backbone sites don't get all the newsgroups that are available. We even get a regional newsgroup for stuggart, west germany. Traffic yesterday was 13.5 megs - -- Larry Snyder, NSTAR Public Access Unix 219-289-0282 (HST/PEP/V.32/v.42bis) regional UUCP mapping coordinator {larry@nstar.rn.com, ..!uunet!nstar!larry, larry%nstar@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu}