Leon Brooks wrote:
> I use web, FTP and for that matter ssh to transfer data in and out of my machine
> all the time. I simply wouldn't use an ISP that prevented that.
Then don't try and use residential cable. In any case cable
bandwidth is asymmetric, with the upload capped at 16KB, which might
more or less support one incoming modem V90 connection.
If you want more, then make a commercial cable connection, and pay
for it.
Your cable vendor has to pay directly for all trans-oceanic data by
the byte. A simple calculation soon shows that the residential
cable service vendor receiving a fixed monthly fee makes a loss on
any user than downloads from abroad at 300KB/sec for over, say, 30
hours a month.
My vendor (Optus) records all the usage, drops the high and low 5% of
users to arrive at an average usage figure on a 14 day rolling
average. Any individual user who exceeeds 10 times this usage on the
same 14 day rolling average, risks having his account cancelled. I
am running at about 4.6 This scheme permits those occasional days
of heavy usage without essential penalty.
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Regards,
Ron. [AU]
