RE: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

[Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se>]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Frank Bulk wrote:

> Interesting, because we have a whole college attached of 10/100/1000 users,
> and they still have a 3:1 ratio of downloading to uploading.  Of course,
> that might be because the school is rate-limiting P2P traffic.  That further
> confirms that P2P, generally illegal in content, is the source of what I
> would call disproportionate ratios.

You're not delivering "Full Internet IP connectivity", you're delivering 
some degraded pseudo-Internet connectivity.

If you take away one of the major reasons for people to upload (ie P2P) 
then of course they'll use less upstream bw. And what you call 
disproportionate ratio is just an idea of "users should be consumers" and 
"we want to make money at both ends by selling download capacity to users 
and upload capacity to webhosting" instead of the Internet idea that 
you're fully part of the internet as soon as you're connected to it.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike () swm pp se