[wellylug] Re: International charges for national traffic connections

[Steven Mulvay]

Thanks for that Phillip. :-) 

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 06:33:07 +1300, wellylug-request at lists.wellylug.org.nz wrote:
> 
> 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.
>