[100467] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Franklin)
Wed Oct 24 05:16:32 2007
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:14:42 +0100 (BST)
From: "Tim Franklin" <tim@pelican.org>
To: "Jack Bates" <jbates@brightok.net>
Cc: "Tim Franklin" <tim@pelican.org>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, October 23, 2007 5:17 pm, Jack Bates wrote:
> Sorry, I am the incumbent. ;) I was just thinking of the copper necessary
> to do such a task on a massive scale. It's definitely not in the ground
> or on a pole at this point in time. One reason DSL was so desireable for
> many small ILECs was the recovery of copper from dual phone lines caused
> by dialup.
Oops - hope I didn't say anything *too* offensive ;) And thanks for the
perspective from the "other side".
Regards,
Tim.