On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Florian Weimer wrote:
In my experience, a permanently congested network isn't fun to work
with, even if most of the flows are long-living and TCP-compatible. The
lack of proper congestion control is kind of a red herring, IMHO.
Why do you think so many network operators of all types are implementing
controls on that traffic?
http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Bad_ISPs
Its not just the greedy commercial ISPs, its also universities,
non-profits, government, co-op, etc networks. It doesn't seem to matter
if the network has 100Mbps user connections or 128Kbps user connection,
they all seem to be having problems with these particular applications.