[95238] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Corlett)
Tue Mar 13 11:54:55 2007
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:52:57 +0000
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 08:27:04AM -0700, Roland Dobbins wrote:
> On Mar 13, 2007, at 8:17 AM, Chris L. Morrow wrote:
[...]
>> what business drivers are there to put more bits on the wire to the end
>> user?
> BitTorrent.
The download speed is however limited by the upload speed of the peers,
which acts as its own rate-limit given that the bandwidth on broadband
connections is somewhat asymmetric.
