[100222] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Provo)
Fri Oct 19 17:14:31 2007
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:21:09 -0400
From: Joe Provo <nanog-post@rsuc.gweep.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Reply-To: nanog-post@rsuc.gweep.net
In-Reply-To: <d800cd540710191210q287f0421qfd4cec437904b6d1@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 02:10:45PM -0500, John C. A. Bambenek wrote:
>
> I love how the framed it as "data discrimination". Let's just be
> honest... 99% of it was illegal traffic taking up far more than their
> fair share of bandwidth.
Content is irrelevent. BT is a protocol-person's dream and an ISP
nightmare. The bulk of the slim profit margin exists in taking
advantage of stat-mux oversubscription. BT blows that out of the
water.
Cheers,
Joe
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