At 12:44 PM 12/2/2008, you wrote: >At 04:03 12/2/2008, Benny Amorsen wrote: > >Doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> "Net Neutrality" is great in principle. But ISP's need to > >> somehow control those few percentage of users who suck down > >> a huge majority of the bandwidth. It's dollars and cents. > > > >Yes, just like the airlines need to somehow control those users who > >keep showing up to the flight they booked, every single time! It's > >impossible to do overbooking with customers like that, so we need to > >find ways of punishing them. > >What happens if everyone who owns a car drives >it at the same time? Owns a telephone and >uses it at the same time?
As far as I remember the very first service to offer flat rate was BIX. They very carefully figured out what it would cost to insure a fair profit, and it was a big hit till a few people figured out that they could use private chats as a network pipe and stay on 24/7 using some mysterious protocol. In the end, that was some of what killed the service and there was nothing to be done about it. For most of us, well for me anyway, I like the fat pipe I have for the 1% of the time I use it and I expect that as a residential user Time Warner sell me that pipe expecting me to use it about that much, maybe a bit more if I had teenage kids. I'm sure in the fine print it says I can't host a web server though I'd guess they'd not complain if it didn't get much traffic. I've considered a T1 so I'd be guaranteed the throughput so my phones would always work, but that costs 10 times as much and has less promised speed than my cable modem. So personally I consider that if I was to try and use my current internet connection to host a torrent site and it tried to use 100% of the promised capacity all the time that I'd get cut off. The same as most of the "unlimited" phone service says in fine print "up to 2000 minutes/month" or some such limit. If I could get the same plan for my internet as I get for my phones, a few dollars a month plus a bit per minute(megabyte), I'd be all over it, but even better, then the provider wouldn't have to care as they'd be making a fair profit no matter what the user did. Ira _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
