[79151] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Thu Mar 31 11:03:11 2005
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:53:14 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <bb0e440a05033107447f70c21d@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Korea Telecom recently decided to scrap its flat rate high speed [1]
> broadband offering and move to a traffic based charging plan - must be
> because most korean broadband gets used for online gaming, which is as
> high bandwidth use an app as you can get ... and they're hit by the same
> situation, which does start to bite when a few users start maxing out
> their pipes, and really begins to hurt when "few" suddenly becomes
> "most"
My guess would be that PtP is a much bigger bandwidth hog than gaming,
especially for the people who have high upstream capacity (10meg+).
Seeing IX traffic exchange between local 10meg full duplex providers and
ADSL providers is kind of fun, with traffic ratios of 1:5 or worse not
being uncommon.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
