--On 01 November 2000, 00:53 +1100 Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> 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.
Urrhh... 16Kbytes/sec == 128Kbit/sec. That's a single flat-out ISDN
connection,
or two and a bit V90s.
> If you want more, then make a commercial cable connection, and pay
> for it.
Yep.
> Your cable vendor has to pay directly for all trans-oceanic data by
> the byte.
Not in the UK and US, they don't :-)
> 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.
Correct - heavy use WILL cost the company more. They don't design
the service for 24x7 flat-out usage.
> 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.
A reasonable scheme; right now, my ISP just watches traffic levels
without taking any action, but if you start causing problems, they
will presumably do something!
James.
