Re: Cable Co's view: NAT is bad because we want to charge per IP

[jamal]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, John Stracke wrote:

> >P.S.: Just to be clear, the other problem that the article finds with
> >NAT is that it enables you to share your connection with neighbors.
>
> <dig, dig>...actually, this is the only problem the article finds.  And,
> yes, I can certainly understand why they consider it a problem: those
> neighbors are getting, for free, the same bandwidth they would if they
> paid for the cable modem service.  Sounds like theft of services to me.
>

maybe the bussiness model of shared bandwidth is the flaw in this
equation. It seems like some rate limiting SLA scheme is the way to go --
a lot more energy conserving than whining about evils of NAT for stealing
bandwidth.

cheers,
jamal