[TriLUG] OT: Earthlink and ISPs

[John Broome]

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 15:40, Bill Farrow <bill at arrowsreach.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Jim <jjtuttle at trilug.org> wrote:
>> So, it occurred to me that with the same equipment I receive significantly
>> different bandwidth allocation.  Is TWC intentionally throttling Earthlink
>> connections?
>
> My understanding is that TWC delivers all traffic coming from Earthink
> customers to a Earthlink data center, and Earthlink is responsible for
> backhauling this traffic to the internet.  So Earthink might be saving
> themselves some money by using a smaller and cheaper backhaul link.