[100542] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leigh Porter)
Thu Oct 25 21:41:50 2007
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:17:02 +0100
From: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
To: Rod Beck <Rod.Beck@hiberniaatlantic.com>
CC: michael.dillon@bt.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <71CB284A12EDA54880FF588A8BAC0BE2011804@ernie>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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.
>
> "Actually, it sounds a lot like the Electric7 tariffs found in the UK for
> electricity. These are typically used by low income people who have less
> education than the average population. And yet they can understand the
> concept of saving money by using more electricity at night.
>
And actually a lot of networks do this with DPI boxes limiting P2P
throughput during the day and increasing or removing the limit at night.
--
Leigh
