Internet traffic and Azureus -
Tim
ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Tue Sep 25 05:01:59 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 07:09 +1000, Res wrote:
> True unlimited or not, no ISP is in business to lose money, if all
> those other users who cost them only 20, start costing them 70, thats
> becomes a break-even or no-profit, add users like you and its a clear
> loss, you will find one of two things happening, prices skyrocket or
> your hit with data caps to stop the abuse so they can make a profit.
True enough, but I tend to think that those who've placed a dollar value
on the byte have inflated it's true value by a rather large magnitude.
I don't think unlimited is really needed, but if they started charging a
truely appropriate amount, we'd be better off. If they had their way,
it'd be a dollar a byte.
It is typical for ISPs not to install the amount of infrastructure
really required for their clients. That started with dial-up, with not
enough phone lines for the number of their customers that wanted to be
on-line simultaneously. That problem's largely overcome, thesedays,
particularly with always-on DSL and cable, they've had to bite the
bullet. But it's still common enough for them to not have enough
bandwidth for all their clients.
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