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Dear colleagues,
We already had the traffic figures provided by Archie (related to the months 10/94 to 2/95) and published in Randy's gopher. We have now more information on the subject: the user figures compiled by Saul and published within the frame of our on-line discussion.
I am providing a synthesis of both data and an attempt to conciliate two figures which should show complementary and coherent aspects of the same reality. The question of the definition of "active user" remains at the center of the debate and is obviously related to the traffic.
The column marked SOURCE 1 is the average of the traffic data of
the 5 months from Archie's figure. The column marked SOURCE 2 is
directly made from Saul's last mail and expresses the number of
active users. The column marked COMPUT1 is the result of the
estimation I did from the source 1 and is also published and
documented in Randy's gopher. The last line is relative to the
REDID network and serves a comparison factor. The last column,
marked ADBU, is the result of a simple computation of the Average
Bytes per Day per User and pretend to serve as a measurable
factor for the data consistency.
ADBU= (Total monthly traffic/30)/ total number of active users.
Please note that the ABDU figure includes the headers of the messages sent or received. This field varies from a minimum of 256 Bytes to more than 1024 Bytes with an average above 512.
SOURCE 1 COMPUT1 SOURCE 2 ADBU
MBytes/Month users users Bytes/user/day
Antigua and Bermuda AG 1.06 2 20 1767 **
Bahamas BS 4.15 8 140 988 **
Barbados BB 8.59 17 30 9544
Belize BZ 13.74 28 80 5725 *
Dominican Rep CUNET DO 3.62 7 70 1724 **
Granada GR .63 1 ?
Guyana GY .10 1 ?
St. Lucia LC 11.72 24 82 4764 *
Vincent and Gren. VC .79 2 150 176 ***
Suriname SR 2.29 5 350 218 ***
Trinidad/Tobago TT 17.14 34 50 11427
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TOTAL CUNET 63.83 129 972 2189 **
***Dominican Rep REDID DO 60.00 120 16667
This simple cross-checking exercise brings questions about
consistency for some of the nodes figures (very strong inconsi-
stency for values below 1000 -***-, strong inconsistency for
values below 3000 -**-, and moderate for values below 6000 -*-).
It is possible that the inconsistency is the result of comparing traffic data from 2/95 with user data from 10/95. Has the traffic pattern for VC, SR, BS, AG and DO increased dramatically in the last 8 months? Archie can help us on that point. If yes, can we have the last months figures? By the way, Archie, is it possible to have published the listing produced by the USERS command from Waffle for each location? That would allow more accuracy on the information, and, I am hoping that everybody will agree that the publication of the list of active users in the Caribbean Research Networks will help enhance intra-regional communication. I will have REDID publish his users listing in a future mail.
Saludos,
Daniel Pimienta
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