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Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets


From: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter () ukbroadband com>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:17:02 +0100


Rod Beck wrote:

The vast bulk of users have no idea how many bytes they
consume each month or the bytes generated by different
applications. The schemes being advocated in this discussion
require that the end users be Layer 3 engineers.

"Actually, it sounds a lot like the Electric7 tariffs found in the UK for
electricity. These are typically used by low income people who have less
education than the average population. And yet they can understand the
concept of saving money by using more electricity at night.


And actually a lot of networks do this with DPI boxes limiting P2P
throughput during the day and increasing or removing the limit at night.

-- 
Leigh


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