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Non-Tech : Quote.com QCharts -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Judy who wrote (13506)	4/13/2001 11:14:21 AM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17977

Linear growth in capacity which is all that is possible without regular incremental increases in monthly rates enables a demand that rises exponentially. This is Say's Law. Supply creates its own demand. Extra supply multiplies the extra demand it spawns. Make supply available and it will be oversubscribed beyond the user's willingness to pay for it. The solution is to discourage marginal demand with increased marginal price. When that is done a portion of the extra revenue can be used to equip for variations of load so the service can provide added value.

To: Judy who wrote (13506)	4/13/2001 11:20:30 AM
From: Nazbuster	Respond to of 17977

Judy, network congestion is not the problem... Download PingPlotter, a great visual network test program, and you'll see the network efficiency clearly. I've seen some days with outstanding connectivity (averaging 35ms between routers) when QC is dead in the water with queuing. pingplotter.com

To: Judy who wrote (13506)	4/13/2001 1:37:47 PM
From: dli	Respond to of 17977

In general the internet is saturated in Boston. This is a ridiculous statement. The Internet is not like the US Interstate system where everybody has to use the Mass Turnpike to get to Boston. You can easily get an OC-48 line (2.5 Gbps) from Boston right into any of the major national backbones if you are willing to pay for it. Quote.com's Boston server farm is hosted by Exodus and even from Europe connectivity is excellent with latency often below 70 ms (ping time). The problems are with server capacity and probably their server-side software architecture in general. As for compression, qcharts is making rather efficient use of it. Dave