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Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme () multicasttech com>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:09:16 -0400
On Oct 10, 2007, at 5:18 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Joe Greco wrote:One of the biggest challenges for the Internet has got to be the steadilyincreasing storage market, combined with the continued development ofsmall, portable processors for every application, meaning that there'sbeen an explosion of computing devices.The one thing that scares me the most is that I have discovered people around me that use their bittorrent clients with rss feeds from bittorrent sites to download "everything" (basically, or at least a category) and then just delete what they don't want. Because they're paying for flat rate there is little incentive in trying to save on bandwidth.If this spreads, be afraid, be very afraid. I can't think of anything more bandwidth intensive than video, no software updates downloads in the world can compete with people automatically downloading DVDRs or xvids of tv shows and movies, and then throwing it away because they were too lazy to set up proper filtering in the first place.
Many people leave the TV on all the time, at least while they are home.On the Internet broadcasting side, we (AmericaFree.TV) have some viewers that do the same - one has racked up a cumulative 109 _days_ of viewing so far this year. (109 days in 280 days duration works out to 9.3 hours per day.) I am sure that other video providers can provide similar reports. So, I don't think that things are that different here in the new regime.
Regards Marshall
-- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike () swm pp se
Current thread:
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?, (continued)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Joe Greco (Oct 08)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Daniel Senie (Oct 08)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Andy Johnson (Oct 08)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Justin M. Streiner (Oct 08)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Joe Greco (Oct 08)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Martin Barry (Oct 08)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Joe Greco (Oct 08)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Steve Gibbard (Oct 09)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Joe Greco (Oct 10)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Mikael Abrahamsson (Oct 10)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Marshall Eubanks (Oct 10)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Joe Greco (Oct 10)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Mikael Abrahamsson (Oct 10)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Tony Finch (Oct 12)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Brandon Galbraith (Oct 12)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Mikael Abrahamsson (Oct 13)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Adrian Chadd (Oct 08)
- Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas? Mark Smith (Oct 10)