said by DMS1:said by KrK:Personally, people use the internet the way they use it. I don't see anyone suddenly increasing usage just because they found out what their cap limit is. What I do see happening is the people who have been exceeding the limits CUTTING BACK their usage to just below the cap... but isn't that the point?
I disagree. The vast majority of users probably never exceed a tenth of what the current soft cap is. However, it the small band of heavy downloaders that have the potential to affect the performance of individual nodes because their usage can be many times the average.
Unless everyone uses the same amount of bandwidth some HAVE TO "Use More Than The Average" since anytime you have different amounts of anything some are going to be under the average and some above it since the definition of average is the total of the measurements divided by the number of measurements. The problem is that the cap is set too low to support the users on the node. You should provision for the heavy users and let low usage users get their bandwidth as part of the equation. The idea is that you look at the actual measurements to see what they look like.
