NOCMan MacChatter Premium join:2004-09-30 Colorado Springs, CO
Why Torrent Hurts ISP's
You have to remember most ISP's are not network carriers with sharing agreements with other large telcos. Cable companies in some cases do transport traffic for the internet across their networks, but consumer traffic for most companies has to be paid for. They get great deals on downloads since it helps telco's get the upperhand in the traffic wars. As uploads increase it decreases the power of the downloads and telco's are probably raising fees for both directions to make up for the loss of carrying the traffic. -- FIOS chat »www.fioschat.com MacChatter »www.macchatter.com
You people need to be happy with what you got. I am a Hughes satelite internet user. On there consumer home service you have 160MB 4 hour time frame FAP (Fair Access Policy)both uploading and downloading count against it and if within that 4 hour period you go over you get FAPed and cut down to dialup speed. You have a recovery rate of 4Kbs and takes about 8 hours to gain back any real speed. Hughes is not upfront with this FAP but is listed if you dig for it.I hope for you people the Cable Co. don't see how well this works for Hughes and give it a try.
BAF Baffles Premium join:2004-02-22 South Glens Falls, NY
What is the point in giving us a shiny 10mb/1mb line if we can only max it out downloading for 160 seconds before being FAP'd? That's the worst system I've ever heard of. -- BAF - BAFServ.com Webhosting
