Although it's a separate conversation (Cost vs Privacy / ISPs policies etc): Domestic ISPs have caps on data and euphemistically named 'traffic shaping' policies. For many users bandwidth isn't free.
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Lodewijk andré de la porte <[email protected]>wrote: > 2013/9/4 Travis Biehn <[email protected]> > >> The problem is that bandwidth isn't free; also standing out ;) > > > Any idea how much fiber/copper goes dark for extended periods of time? > Remember Fidonet*? Remember 0.00000...1 == 0! Besides, what's > privacy/plausible-deniability worth to you? > > *pairing agreements make a lot of bandwidth free both ways, after the > physical connections are constructed. Problems arise when destinations > aren't preferred ones, but why would you trickle towards not preferred > ones? As long as you can onion route towards preferable you'll be green. > -- Twitter <https://twitter.com/tbiehn> | LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/in/travisbiehn>| GitHub <http://github.com/tbiehn> | TravisBiehn.com<http://www.travisbiehn.com>
