[TriLUG] OT: Earthlink and ISPs

[Bill Farrow]

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.

Bill