[99960] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Wed Oct 10 17:25:31 2007
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:18:38 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200710101704.l9AH4AJ1046735@aurora.sol.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Joe Greco wrote:
> One of the biggest challenges for the Internet has got to be the steadily
> increasing storage market, combined with the continued development of
> small, portable processors for every application, meaning that there's
> been an explosion of computing devices.
The one thing that scares me the most is that I have discovered people
around me that use their bittorrent clients with rss feeds from bittorrent
sites to download "everything" (basically, or at least a category) and
then just delete what they don't want. Because they're paying for flat
rate there is little incentive in trying to save on bandwidth.
If this spreads, be afraid, be very afraid. I can't think of anything more
bandwidth intensive than video, no software updates downloads in the world
can compete with people automatically downloading DVDRs or xvids of tv
shows and movies, and then throwing it away because they were too lazy to
set up proper filtering in the first place.
--
Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
