[99961] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Wed Oct 10 18:10:22 2007
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710102314560.15766@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Cc: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:09:16 -0400
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Oct 10, 2007, at 5:18 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Many people leave the TV on all the time, at least while they are home.
On the Internet broadcasting side, we (AmericaFree.TV) have some
viewers that do the same - one has racked
up a cumulative 109 _days_ of viewing so far this year. (109 days in
280 days duration works out to 9.3 hours per day.) I am sure that
other video providers can provide similar reports. So, I don't think
that things are that different here in the new regime.
Regards
Marshall
> --
> Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
