This really isn't the case however. First off upload speeds are far, far slower than download speeds on all residential cable services: so servers (which depend more on upload speeds since requests consume very little download bandwith) simply can't use as much bandwidth.
Secondly residential server applications will never outweigh the traffic being consumed by broadband consumer applications. Peer-to-peer, especially (which really is a server) consumes a huge amount of bandwidth compared to any traffic that a personal website or email server could realistically get. Applications like video conferencing, video email, streaming video and radio and so forth are all enormous bandwidth hogs. I just don't see blocking servers as an effective measure against abuse. Bandwidth abuse is still bandwidth abuse whether you're running an overloaded game server, serving up full-length movies via Kaaza, or broadcasting high-quality video from your webcam. I do agree that security is a reasonable argument, but the simple fact is that most people that would be running servers are really no more or less secure that the average user. (PS: can you tell that I'm a little miffed that I can run my websire from home? ;^) ) Jim Davis -----Original Message----- From: Won Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 9:08 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Adelphia = Rip Off I am glad that the cable companies are blocking those ports. 1) That is more security 2) People that run servers on residential networks unfairly hog the bandwidth. Some guy decides that he wants to run some bandwidth intensive server and the rest of us are supposed to have a weak connection? Not cool. And then you get into who decides what is too much bandwidth. -- 2004 - The year $184M couldn't buy a pennant. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:135727 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
