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Re: my only gripe

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 15:00:18 EDT

xenophon posted : Yeah, I could see Google limit the number of concurrent uplink connections that would be reasonable enough for personal use. They'll probably have to either limit bandwidth or # of concurrent uplink connections in the end. It would be too easy to abuse the service. For marketing purposes they are saying 1Gbit unlimited and not many would understand concurrent uplink connection limits so they could likely get away limiting the latter w/out taking a PR hit.

Re: my only gripe

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:53:13 EDT

somms posted :

said by Guspaz:

This is not the kind of limit they will enforce, it's a cover-your-ass rule.

Google is selling a residential service. This sort of service makes assumptions about typical use cases in order to make financial sense at the price offered. A business or enterprise, however, would have a very different usage profile, and the ISP could either lose a lot of money on that customer, or they could even cause congestion (more on that in a bit). As such, ISPs will put in the no-server clause so that if some business does start using and abusing the connection, they have a clause in the AUP that lets them terminate problem customers. This is not intended so much to catch your home server, but so that if a small business tries to power their rack of servers on the thing, there is grounds for termination.

That said, let me address the bandwidth for a moment. Google is promising 1 gigabit symmetrical, and they're delivering that over GPON. I believe I've heard the split Google will use is 1:32 (32 customers per node), but I can't confirm that. GPON supports, per node, a shared speed of roughly 2.5 Gbps down and 1.25 Gbps up. For a typical residential scenario, that's enough that people aren't going to have speed concerns, but throw an enterprise on there with a rack of servers and things get iffy.

A home user isn't going to max out a gigabit upstream all day long, but a business could easily do that 24/7. Suddenly, the other 31 users on the node have only 250 megabit of shared bandwidth available (although in practice a second customer would see about 600ish). There's not enough bandwidth to go around with GPON for large businesses to be sharing it with residential users; enterprises should be on dedicate fibre.

There's a wrinkle here, though. Typically you don't deliver 1 Gbps on GPON because there's not a lot of bandwidth go go around. You would want at least 10GPON for that, but 10GPON isn't really seen in the real world yet. If you throw a gigabit connection at every customer, it gets really easy to saturate the entire node's upstream capacity with BitTorrent or something. It doesn't take many users running BitTorrent on gigabit connections to saturate that total of 1.25 Gbps...

For this reason, we may see Google being more aggressive with the no-servers clause than residential ISPs typically are.

»en.wikinoticia.com/Technology/in···s-161-km

We follow with interest every step you take Google's new experimental fiber network that is unfolding in Kansas City. On this occasion, one of its leaders explains how each household connected individually to the Google Fiber Huts, which unlike GPON networks such as Telefonica can offer 1 Gbps symmetrical.

John Toccalino, project manager, explains that being installed in various parts of the city a few huts or nodes called Google Fiber Huts. Inside house the OLT equipment that connect the pairs of fiber, which then hung from utility poles, reach every home. For its explanation, we understand that Google is not using a GPON network like the one in Spain is installing Telef�nica.

Google does reach each individual fiber from Google Hut Fiber to the home. The main advantage is that each line is independent and can use their full capacity for a single user. The disadvantage is that a deployment of this type is more expensive than the displays in a tree, as used by Telefonica, in which each fiber coming from the OLT is divided into several stages into sub-segments by splitters, so that all Users are both the same optical signal, but each uses it only for the fraction of time allocated to it.

With this architecture, the network of Google not only provides 1 Gbps to each user, but this is symmetrical, which would be impossible in a GPON deployment, having to share all the users upload rate up to 1, 25 Gbps.

Re: my only gripe

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:26:30 EDT

Guspaz posted : This is not the kind of limit they will enforce, it's a cover-your-ass rule.

Google is selling a residential service. This sort of service makes assumptions about typical use cases in order to make financial sense at the price offered. A business or enterprise, however, would have a very different usage profile, and the ISP could either lose a lot of money on that customer, or they could even cause congestion (more on that in a bit). As such, ISPs will put in the no-server clause so that if some business does start using and abusing the connection, they have a clause in the AUP that lets them terminate problem customers. This is not intended so much to catch your home server, but so that if a small business tries to power their rack of servers on the thing, there is grounds for termination.

That said, let me address the bandwidth for a moment. Google is promising 1 gigabit symmetrical, and they're delivering that over GPON. I believe I've heard the split Google will use is 1:32 (32 customers per node), but I can't confirm that. GPON supports, per node, a shared speed of roughly 2.5 Gbps down and 1.25 Gbps up. For a typical residential scenario, that's enough that people aren't going to have speed concerns, but throw an enterprise on there with a rack of servers and things get iffy.

A home user isn't going to max out a gigabit upstream all day long, but a business could easily do that 24/7. Suddenly, the other 31 users on the node have only 250 megabit of shared bandwidth available (although in practice a second customer would see about 600ish). There's not enough bandwidth to go around with GPON for large businesses to be sharing it with residential users; enterprises should be on dedicate fibre.

There's a wrinkle here, though. Typically you don't deliver 1 Gbps on GPON because there's not a lot of bandwidth go go around. You would want at least 10GPON for that, but 10GPON isn't really seen in the real world yet. If you throw a gigabit connection at every customer, it gets really easy to saturate the entire node's upstream capacity with BitTorrent or something. It doesn't take many users running BitTorrent on gigabit connections to saturate that total of 1.25 Gbps...

For this reason, we may see Google being more aggressive with the no-servers clause than residential ISPs typically are.
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Re: my only gripe

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 13:49:21 EDT

keithps posted : I can't find it for my ISP either:

»epbfi.com/support/legal/open-int···closure/

»epbfi.com/support/legal/acceptab···-policy/
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Re: my only gripe

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 12:33:39 EDT

NormanS posted :

said by 09129800:

Every ISP states this ...

For some values of "every", but then this:

»sonic.net/sales/broadband/dsl/te···type=res

»wiki.sonic.net/wiki/Policy#Accep···_Policy/

Find the server prohibition; I am having trouble finding it.
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Re: my only gripe

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 08:47:39 EDT

FBGuy posted : Everything you said is valid, but a single server should never be able to degrade service on any ISP.

Re: my only gripe

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 02:30:36 EDT

Warez_Zealot posted :

said by FBGuy:

I absolutely love this, but my only gripe is the "no servers" bit.

To be honest, it's for their own protection should it get escalated to the abuse department.

I can think of 2 legit reasons they have the "no server" bit rule.
1) An ISP topology is NOT setup for servers. A legit server has crazy traffic spikes, and can push upwards of 6000 - 1TB traffic on a 100Mbit port. They don't want you saturating their connection.

2) The NOC would be inundated with pointless quality of service tickets because you will get a few people running servers and killing the experience for the rest of the ISP customers.

IMO if you're going to run a legit server, you should just go with a dedicated server/hosting company.
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Re: my only gripe

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 01:38:57 EDT

NormanS posted :

said by r81984:

Every residential provider prohibits servers.

Not "every". My ISP allows residential users to obtain static IP addresses, and allows servers to be run on those statics. My IP address rDNS does not reflect who my ISP is, only my domain.

Also, my former ISP, at least up to the purchase (I was an SBC Global customer then) did not prohibit servers on residential accounts.

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Re: my only gripe

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 23:15:45 EDT

Smith6612 posted :

said by moldypickle:

From SuddenLink's latest updated file. Oddly enough SL terms seem to indicate I'm not even allowed hosting a game from my house, lol.

If that's absolutely true/enforced, no more game consoles. That term must be broken by everyone in this day and age.

Re: my only gripe

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 23:11:30 EDT

FBGuy posted : yea that makes no sense. it's impossible to use the internet without technically having server applications on your computer.

Re: my only gripe

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 22:44:00 EDT

moldypickle posted :

said by FBGuy:

Care to show me where it says that they are not allowed? You can start with your own ISP.

4. COMMERCIAL USE

If you are a commercial subscriber of Suddenlink, this paragraph 4 shall not apply to your subscription to the Internet but only to the extent that your subscription expressly addresses such use.

The Internet Service is provided for personal and family use within a single residential household. You agree that you will not use, nor allow others to use, the Internet Service to operate any type of business or commercial enterprise or to use the Internet Service as an Internet service provider. You may set up one (1) Web page per e-mail account for personal use using the Internet Service, but you may not establish a web page using a server located at your home. You agree that you will not use, nor allow others to use, your home computer as a Web Server, FTP Server, file server or game server or to run any other server applications. Customer will not resell or redistribute, or allow others to resell or redistribute, access to the Internet Service in any manner, including by wireless means.

From SuddenLink's latest updated file. Oddly enough SL terms seem to indicate I'm not even allowed hosting a game from my house, lol.
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Re: my only gripe

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:42:11 EDT

FBGuy posted : My previous ISPs(Mediacom and AT&T and Comcast) all said that they would not support it, but it was allowed for personal use. This pretty much is in line with what you said about not making money on your internet connection for a server hosting business.

Re: my only gripe

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:39:52 EDT

FBGuy posted : Care to show me where it says that they are not allowed? You can start with your own ISP.

Re: my only gripe

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:30:12 EDT

r81984 posted : Very rare.
Obviously there will be small local anomalies to servers, but almost all dont allow them in their terms for residential.
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Re: my only gripe

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:30:03 EDT

Kearnstd posted :

said by r81984:

Every residential provider prohibits servers.
The issue though is your computer is always a server on the internet, so it never made any sense.

As long as you are not running a high traffic business website then no one is going to care.

I honestly think the real reason this is in most TOS is not just to limit network congestion but also limit angry phone calls. If someone hosted their business at home on a non business rated conenction and the service goes down they will be calling in complaining and crying about lost money.

I have a feeling anybody with a really tech smart member of their WoW guild might want them to host the Vent/TS3/Mumble on a spare linux box though.
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Re: my only gripe

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:22:39 EDT

somms posted :

said by r81984:

Every residential provider prohibits servers.

»www.xmission.com/legal#au

Server Services on DSL and Residential UTOPIA
XMission allows DSL and UTOPIA subscribers to run and maintain their own servers.

My FTTH ISP residential provider is cool w/servers...

Re: my only gripe

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:18:39 EDT

tmc8080 posted : with gigabit internet, there are many ways to make money (legally) other than trying to abuse the service with servers; to get your $70 worth..

it will be interesting to see what they do should someone try to share 'copyrighted cable-tv service over gigabit.. or to a social broadcasting site like ustream or justin.tv; consumer's might have their own take on how they want to interact with broadcast content.. this will be a problem for all content providers as the ISPs raise broadband speeds, particularly the upstream.

Re: my only gripe

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:15:00 EDT

r81984 posted : Every residential provider prohibits servers.
The issue though is your computer is always a server on the internet, so it never made any sense.

As long as you are not running a high traffic business website then no one is going to care.
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Re: my only gripe

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:13:50 EDT

xenophon posted : I don't know how Google would enforce 'no servers'. If they do I suspect they would not limit outbound bandwidth but might limit the number of outbound connections on the uplink to a dozen or so concurrent. That would be reasonable as you could still use things like Orb or Playon for personal/family use.

Re: my only gripe

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:00:49 EDT

tiger72 posted : Excite@Home, ATTBI, ATT DSL, Comcast, TWC, Charter - just about every company i've ever paid for residential service has prohibited hosting servers.

At one point, ATTBI used to actively scan their network to search for HTTP servers... At the time their only offering was 1.5mbps down, and 128kbps up...

Typically, the part about hosting servers being prohibited in your contract is actually just an excuse for them to cancel your service if it becomes clear that you're using a cheap residential connection to run a profitable server hosting business. Otherwise, most companies dont want to bother with actually policing their network.
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Re: my only gripe

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:56:16 EDT

09129800 posted : Every ISP states this but they never enforce it.

I'd be surprised to see Google enforce this unless someone decides to open up the next Megaupload and host it right on their Google Fiber connection :D

Re: my only gripe

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:50:11 EDT

me1212 posted : Do they have a business connection that allows them?

Re: my only gripe

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:43:22 EDT

brad posted :

said by FBGuy:

Servers are not SUPPORTED on most residential connections. On Google Fiber, they are NOT ALLOWED/PROHIBITED/etc.

There is a very big difference here.

A lot of consumer connections servers are NOT ALLOWED/PROHIBITED/etc.

Re: my only gripe

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:33:50 EDT

FBGuy posted : Servers are not SUPPORTED on most residential connections. On Google Fiber, they are NOT ALLOWED/PROHIBITED/etc.

There is a very big difference here.

Re: my only gripe

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:29:49 EDT

moldypickle posted :

said by FBGuy:

I absolutely love this, but my only gripe is the "no servers" bit.

Kinda like no servers on every single other residential connection?
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my only gripe

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:25:38 EDT

FBGuy posted : I absolutely love this, but my only gripe is the "no servers" bit.