amungus
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Re: We need fairness
"It is the upload bandwidth drain that causes concerns with bittorrent."
That, and a billion connections that keep coming and going from all reaches of the known (and unknown) internet....
IMHO, the use of upload from most home connections isn't the biggest concern... Most cable networks actually CAN handle people using their upload on a fairly regular basis... so can DSL...
If someone uploaded all day to their own website, for instance, it wouldn't be that big of a deal.
If people upload an hour long video to youtube or wherever, it's not that bad...
But, if one sits there and has 100's of connections open and they're constantly switching on and off to various places, the ISP's routers then get a little congested and all that starts affecting other people's traffic. Really, even with 1 or 2 Mbps upload, a user uploading to one place at a time does FAR less damage than a user that is using that bandwidth and having it route to the ends of the earth...
just my 2 cents. not trying to whine that everyone should constantly be juicing the system... |
