[99857] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Sat Oct 6 21:42:16 2007
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 09:41:31 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200710061503.l96F3oT3025364@aurora.sol.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007, Joe Greco wrote:
> However, it is equally possible that there'll be some newfangled killer
> app that comes along. At some point, this will present a problem. All
> the self-justification in the world will not matter when the customers
> want to be able to do something that uses up a little more bandwidth.
The next newfangled app came along - its P2P. Australian ISPS have already
responded by throttling back P2P.
adrian
