[45343] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SlashDot: "Comcast Gunning for NAT Users"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Mansey)
Thu Jan 31 14:16:25 2002
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 11:13:10 -0800
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To: "Conrad A. Rockenhaus" <conradr@skyphusion.com>
From: Jon Mansey <jon@interpacket.net>
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On Thursday, January 31, 2002, at 10:24 AM, Conrad A. Rockenhaus wrote:
> snip
> When someone's running NAT, the bandwidth is distributed between the users
> behind the NAT device.
>
> If someone's assigned 512K, they can only use up to 512K, be it one
> computer, or several behind a NAT device.
Ive often pondered the feasibility of port based bandwidth rate control,
and if broadband providers would ever actually implement it, whether
protected by Ts&Cs or not.
jm
