[wellylug] International charges for national traffic connections

[Phillip Hutchings]

On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:06:55 +1300, Steven Mulvay
<steven.mulvays.groups at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm a little confused, does this problem only effect broad band customers and leave dialup customers with the status quo? The reason I ask is that I'm a Paradise dialup customer and I haven't had any trouble accessing any website. Nor have I noticed any increase in my Paradise bill. Someone on this list (I can't recall who) said that the Kiwibank and the NZPost websites weren't working. I tested them both last night, they worked fine for me. Perhaps the reason I'm unaffected by the depeering is because despite being a Paradise customer, my line is with Telecom, is that it?
> 
> Cheers,
> Steve

Dial up customers pay for time online, and dial up has high latency,
so you're unlikely to see any difference. High speed (cable/ADSL)
customers pay for data transferred, and local traffic - within New
Zealand - is discounted. High speed networks are also low latency.
With depeering some previously local sites are now international, as
there is no quick local path to the servers, and therefore latency is
increased. High speed customers are affected much more than dial up
customers.

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