Uplink@100 Mbps

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Uplink@100 Mbps
- That is a nice network, but is it worth the effort to build such a network if you only connect it to some slow ISP? - We have a really lovely ISP in our city Umeå. They are called Norrnod and they have an excellent concept - they have a large DMZ (click on it to see a schematic of the entire DMZ with speeds between parts of it and all!) to which lots of companies connect and all traffic within the DMZ is absolutely for free and of extremely high speed - 100 Mbps to 10 Gbps! Sunet is also within the DMZ so all cities with Universities in Sweden are within our area of free traffic - currently at 2.5 Gbps! Sunet is currently expanding their nationwide network - by the end of 2001, Umeå will be connected with a 2.5 to 10 Gbps network to several other cities! New contract We have unlimited traffic nowadays. Our latest agreement with Bostream, our new ISP, gives us full duplex, 100 Mbps, unlimited traffic. Historic description follows: Traffic that need to leave the DMZ passes through a special gateway (Betala-GW) and the average capacity through that gateway renders a monthly fee - in our case about US$ 8 per family. We have no limit in speed through that gateway (well, it is a 75 Mbps-link going south and that is the limit), but if we use more than the 1200 MB/24 hours on average over a month, we're supposed to pay a bigger monthly fee. We have noticed that 1200 MB/24 hrs is a bit little, but we can easily manage if all online game players stick to servers within the DMZ (which is fairly large - and growing fast).

Uplink@100 Mbps

- That is a nice network, but is it worth the effort to build such a network if you only connect it to some slow ISP?

- We have a really lovely ISP in our city Umeå. They are called Norrnod and they have an excellent concept - they have a large DMZ (click on it to see a schematic of the entire DMZ with speeds between parts of it and all!) to which lots of companies connect and all traffic within the DMZ is absolutely for free and of extremely high speed - 100 Mbps to 10 Gbps!

Sunet is also within the DMZ so all cities with Universities in Sweden are within our area of free traffic - currently at 2.5 Gbps!

Sunet is currently expanding their nationwide network - by the end of 2001, Umeå will be connected with a 2.5 to 10 Gbps network to several other cities!

New contract

We have unlimited traffic nowadays. Our latest agreement with Bostream, our new ISP, gives us full duplex, 100 Mbps, unlimited traffic.

Historic description follows:

Traffic that need to leave the DMZ passes through a special gateway (Betala-GW) and the average capacity through that gateway renders a monthly fee - in our case about US$ 8 per family. We have no limit in speed through that gateway (well, it is a 75 Mbps-link going south and that is the limit), but if we use more than the 1200 MB/24 hours on average over a month, we're supposed to pay a bigger monthly fee.

We have noticed that 1200 MB/24 hrs is a bit little, but we can easily manage if all online game players stick to servers within the DMZ (which is fairly large - and growing fast).