[100505] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Thu Oct 25 02:32:39 2007
In-Reply-To: <71CB284A12EDA54880FF588A8BAC0BE20117E1@ernie>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:10:37 +0200
To: Rod Beck <Rod.Beck@hiberniaatlantic.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 24-okt-2007, at 16:44, Rod Beck wrote:
> The vast bulk of users have no idea how many bytes they consume
> each month or the bytes generated by different applications. The
> schemes being advocated in this discussion require that the end
> users be Layer 3 engineers.
Users more or less know what a gigabyte is, because when they
download too many of them, it fills up their drive. If the limits are
high enough that only actively using high-bandwidth apps has any
danger of going over them, the people using those apps will find the
time to educate themselves. It's not that hard: an hour of video
conferencing (500 kbps) is 450 MB, downloading a gigabyte is.. 1 GB.
