| reply to Eek2121
Re: Law suit time ...until you guys realize that you have a limited amount of bandwidth available on your wireless network and that a VERY small amount of users using P2P crap paying you $30 per month are chewing up a $3,500 per month T3 - making your service unusable for anyone but file sharers because of the latency. Trust me, I own a WISP. I'd MUCH rather pitch 5 $30 per month accounts of the guys that P2P 24/7 and let the hundreds of others remain happy than lose business because some of you are too damn cheap to buy what you use. Sure, P2P has its legitimate uses, but i've never seen anyone in a life or death situation because they couldn't download Shrek2 or something in a few hours...BUT...the police departments, hospitals, fire departments, ambulance companies and such that rely on my network will suffer...
While i would NEVER deny service by blocking ports or disabling applications, It makes sound financial and business sense to have the "top 1%" of bandwidth users suffer by throttling a few P2P applications back than to lose my ass in thousands of dollars of lost revenue when subscribers start ditching me due to network issues caused by the nonstop barrage of junk. Upgrade my crappy network you say? Give you more speed? I don't think so. I have top of the line everything, with a Tier1 fiber provider for my backhaul. Tons of money invested on a product that works like a charm when we are able to control the abuse. How much money do I have to spend to make the P2P community happy? Infrastructure costs money, so does bandwidth. A dedicated 65Mb circuit costs around $10,000 per month. Twenty p2p users at 3mb saturates this link, and they pay a whopping total of $600 combined per month for that privelage.
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