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Mr Matt
join:2008-01-29
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| How will subscribers predict usage.  One thing the ISP's like Time Warner do not mention is that a subscriber cannot predict how many bytes of data will be downloaded when visiting a website. Many websites send advertising slide shows, streaming audio and/or streaming video while a person visits a web page. Furthermore there is the usage created by many software programs automatically log into the software creators server for updates. For example: Windows Activation, Anti Virus programs and other software products. Imagine if your cellular phone usage was billed like the message rate service in New York City. You would not know how many units of usage you would be charged when you placed a call. Land line Subscribers were charged message units based on distance. Calls placed within the central office were charged a flat rate of one message unit. Calls placed to a central office at the edge of the message rate area were charged Seven Message Units for the first minute and one message unit for each additional minute. Broadband Subscribers will be faced with the same problem if companies like Time Warner set usage limits. I have a better solution, and that is to require websites sending streaming data streams to pay the ISP's for carrying their traffic. If the ISP's want to limit P2P traffic they can take a lesson from Japan where the ISP's are limiting upstream traffic to 30GB per day. | |
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join:2007-06-17
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| said by Mr Matt:I have a better solution, and that is to require websites sending streaming data streams to pay the ISP's for carrying their traffic. Oh. My. God.
Are you F-ing kidding me?!?! Do you realize what you just said, what you just suggested?
If this is implemented, what this means is the end of blogs, small websites (especially to cater to fringe tastes), P2P of course (since in P2P everyone is a server), and the end of just about anything provided over the Internet that doesn't come from a big corporation with a lot of money.
It would mean the end of my E-mail server, my Asterisk PBX, and anything else I may wish to provide on a very small scale from my own server at home. No, I don't violate the TOS. I bought a "business" connection to avoid restrictions and B.S., and to get a static IP (keeps things simpler). So, my TOS allows servers. | | |
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