[100559] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gregory Hicks)
Fri Oct 26 09:01:35 2007
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:59:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gregory Hicks <ghicks@cadence.com>
Reply-To: Gregory Hicks <ghicks@cadence.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu, geoincidents@nls.net
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> From: "Geo." <geoincidents@nls.net>
> To: <nanog@merit.edu>
> Subject: Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks?
> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:18:01 -0400
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> > The problem is that ISPs work under the assumption that users only
> > use a certain percentage of their available bandwidth, while (some) users
> > work under the assumption that they get to use all their available
> > bandwidth 24/7 if they choose to do so.
>
> My home dsl is 6mb/384k, so what exactly is the true cost of a dedicated
> 384K of bandwidth? I mean what you say would be true if we were talking
Dunno, but I've got a 3m/384k line for about DSL business class for $105/month.
Don't think I can do better pricewise, but...
> download but for most dsl up speed is so insignificant compared to downspeed
> I have trouble believing that the true cost for 24x7 isn't being paid. It's
> just that some of the cable services are offering more up speed (1mb plus)
> and so are getting a disproportionate amount of fileshare upload traffic (if
> a download takes X minutes more is upload by a source on a 1mb upload pipe
> compared to a 384k upload pipe so the upload totals are greater for the
> cable isp).
>
> Geo.
>
> George Roettger
> Netlink Services
>
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