[wellylug] depeer

[Chris Cormack]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 02:44:36PM +1300, jumbophut said:
> 
> One assumes it was for commercial reasons, and not just to be utter
> bastards.  The question is: what _specifically_ are those commercial
> reasons?  How do they make more money if they depeer?
> 
> I get the vague idea that other networks will now have to pay more to
> get onto their network, and Telstra will now pay more to go the other
> way.  If more traffic goes onto Telstra's network from WIX than off to
> WIX, Telstra win.  But then I don't really understand how traffic is
> charged for in the big bad world of ISPs, so I'm probably talking out
> my rear.
> 

I think what they want is for content providers to pay for access to their
customers. Double dipping basically, IE you/me as a telstraclear customer
pay some money to get access to the internet, then they want ppl like
r2 to pay for access to the telstraclear network. So they charge us to get
the content, and they charge r2 to send it. As well as r2 having to pay
whoever their isp is for their bandwidth. 
I think they hope ppl will go, oh I better host with telstraclear else my
customers/users will get crap performance. Or I better pester my ISP to buy
peering with telstra.

Chris