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Re: Comcast Considering 250GB Cap, Overage Fees with DJF comment
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 07:56:04 -0700
I should point out that it is essential for the carrier to NOT exempt their services (like VOD via the internet path) from the cap. As someone pointed out that would give an unfair advantahe to the carrier and create justifiable yells of netneu. djf ________________________________________ From: W.B. McNamara [whitney () absono us] Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 10:52 AM To: David Farber Cc: rs9174 () gmail com Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Comcast Considering 250GB Cap, Overage Fees For IP, if you wish. Ralph - There are too many variables for us to answer "how many movies" accurately, but to give some sense of what that 250GB/month means, consider this: If you have a connection that offers 1.5Mbit downstream and you were using that downstream to its *full theoretical capacity* 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, you'd pull down about 475GB of data in the course of a 30 day month. If you're using your entire downstream potential for 6 hours a day, every day over the course of that 30 day month, that's 119GB. While I think that the next round of interesting stuff is likely to happen where people have a lot of bandwith (both down *and* upstream), I'm happy enough to accept explicit caps from my ISP -- there are caps in place anyway, and it's a much bigger pain in the ass to deal with a fuzzy, undocumented, variable cap than an explicit one. As a provider of content on the Internet I pay for a hosting account that includes a set amount of data transfer, and if I get Dugg or Slashdotted and burn through that transfer I have the option of buying more at a set price; I'm happy enough to work on the same logic as a consumer of content on the Internet. I wrote about this issue (a couple of years ago now, frighteningly enough) here: http://smr.absono.us/2006/03/lunchtime-musings-broadband-wall-math/ - Whit ** W.B. McNamara whitney () absono us 646-NEptune7-7791 David Farber wrote:
________________________________________ From: Ralph [rs9174 () gmail com] Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 7:43 AM To: David Farber Subject: Re: [IP] Comcast Considering 250GB Cap, Overage Fees 250GB would give you the bandwidth to download how many movies per month? 0? 1? 5? 25? Ralph Sierra ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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