[101632] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Mon Jan 14 17:27:04 2008
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: Stephen.Bailey@uk.fujitsu.com (Bailey Stephen)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:25:13 -0600 (CST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <C04F68E95A4DC147902DE0C9311E3957961C23@EUROPEV006.europe.fs.fujitsu.com> from "Bailey Stephen" at Jan 14, 2008 05:42:59 PM
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> From my experience, the Internet IP Transit Bandwidth costs ISP's a lot
> more than the margins made on Broadband lines.
>
> So users who rarely use their connection are more profitable to the ISP.
The fat man isn't a welcome sight to the owner of the AYCE buffet.
What exactly does this imply, though, from a networking point of view?
... JG
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