>From: Mark James
>If all you are doing is broadcasting an internet connection, without file
>sharing, the worst is someone gets on your internet connection and uses
>up some bandwidth. In most cases, why care?
This is very off-topic but, since you asked, here's one answer. :-)
In the fairly near future the basis on which the Internet works is going
to change. I had this confirmed yesterday by my own ISP but it's one of
those well known "secrets".
At present we tend to pay so much a month for a connection and, in some
cases, the data throughput (I hate using "bandwidth") is limited
("capped").
In the future we'll be paying a nominal fee for a faster connection -
around 8Mb download and 800Kb/s for uploads - and we'll be charged for
the amount of data that goes through our connection in both directions.
The technology already exists to measure this and the ISPs are currently
getting their software together so that billing will be automatic. Expect
a big change in a year or two at most.
This means that you won't want to share your connection with a non-paying
guest. It also means that those of you who currently receive 100+
unwanted messages per day, and simply trash them through clever Bayesian
filtering or whatever, will be *paying* for all that trash to be
downloaded to your Mac.
Thankfully, I got out of that particular disaster area a couple of years
ago!
See http://www.netcentral.co.uk/satcure/spam.htm
Martin Pickering (UK)
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