They tried to requote us for their 21CN broadband platform, assuming we take it in London as they wanted to charge us 50p per meter all the way from Manchester to Belfast (totaling some £250k). After carefully examining our current installation they decided that we should replace our pair of 34Mb pipes with a single [...]

Want to limit the total bandwidth available to a Linux server, and don’t want to do it at the switch or router? Here’s how!

A few further thoughts on things that people forget to take into account when attempting to measure bandwidth: When measuring bandwidth, attempt to use a site or tool that is close to your ISP. If you’re in the UK and you try to test your connection using a site hosted in the US it’s never [...]

An issue that comes up for me at work time and time again is customers misunderstanding how bandwidth is measured.