[wellylug] 'Peering' changes set to hit internet businesses

[Grant McLean]

On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 23:15 +1300, Jeremy Naylor wrote:
> TelstraClear spokesman Matthew Bolland said the telco had been "losing tens 
> of thousands of dollars a month" by exchanging free data with local providers.

That's an interesting spin :-)

I'm a TelstraClear ADSL customer, so my traffic costs have never had a
national/international split.  With the exception of ftp.citylink, I can
still get to all the sites I used to (including vast amounts of traffic
to TradeMe :-)), but now 

a) things are a little slower (it is noticeable)
b) it costs TelstraClear bucketloads more money to route stuff
   internationally

Cheers
Grant