[100507] 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 06:57:51 2007
In-Reply-To: <71CB284A12EDA54880FF588A8BAC0BE20117E8@ernie>
Cc: "Adrian Chadd" <adrian@creative.net.au>, <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:49:55 +0200
To: Rod Beck <Rod.Beck@hiberniaatlantic.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 24-okt-2007, at 17:39, Rod Beck wrote:
> A simpler and hence less costly approach for those providers
> serving mass markets is to stick to flat rate pricing and outlaw
> high-bandwidth applications that are used by only a small number of
> end users.
That's not going to work in the long run. Just my podcasts are about
10 GB a month. You only have to wait until there's more HD video
available online and it gets easier to get at for most people to see
bandwidth use per customer skyrocket.
There are much worse things than having customers that like using
your service as much as they can.
