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UK | reply to Maggs
Re: What about pings, packet storms and Cable modem data said by Maggs:On cable, I'm on a shared network and the packets pass to each modem, why should I be billed for the search and destroy method of cable. They would have to totally re engineer their networks to accommodate this on a grand scale, and imagine the logs the techs would have to deal with. The MPEG frames your packets are enclosed in are broadcast to each modem on the downstream, however your packets themselves are Unicast. It's trivial to track usage to a single modem, and indeed it's a standard part of every CMTS operating system to have a bandwidth counter per modem. If there were no way to do this there would be no way to address traffic to a single modem.
Maybe I've misunderstood you of course, however the distribution system of cable is totally irrelevant to this debate and I'm not sure you entirely understand that system. |
