The fact that BT takes up the largest percentage of the bandwidth doesn't really tell you anything about bandwidth usage. It's a meaningless fact.
The real fact is that 95% of the world could be using the internet for email and web browsing alone (both of which are very low bandwidth applications easily handled by a 56k modem) and the other 5% using BT could be using 60% of the bandwidth because BT is a very high bandwidth application. Of course I'm exagurating a little bit but the point remains- The fact doesn't mean much by itself. In any case, I don't think there is much to argue about if the Terms and Conditions stated from the beginning that there was a 5GiB cap. On the other hand, I don't think it's right for ISP's to start enforcing the clause whenever they feel like it. It's as unethical as baiting and switching. Imagine if an ISP would secretly give every new customer 5M lines for a month and a half- then all of a sudden the speed drops to 1.5M. Joe schmoe doesn't know what's hit him and when he calls customer service, the rep tells him "Oh I'm sorry - we accidentally gave you a 5M line and only just corrected the mistake but don't worry we won't charge you for it- BTW are you interested in our new special on 5M lines?" It's the same here- for months/years they didn't say anything. Now when people are used to it- they come and ask for money. It is their own fault that they overbook the lines- they should deal with it and if they want to limit new customers- gei gezunt. yonah On 4/23/06, Oded Arbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday, 23 בApril 2006 10:47, Ira Abramov wrote: > > well, it's nice that you pay for online multimedia, most people > > don't. in fact I don't know the latest numbers but well over 50% of > > the world's IP traffic today are bittorrent streams > > He. I was initially going to refute the above claim - are you out of > your mind ? what about emails and web ? Well - I don't know how right > you are, but the few numbers I could find seem to support at least the > notion of bittorrent being the largest provoker of ISP limitations: > According to this study > (http://www.cachelogic.com/research/2005_slide07.php), P2P traffic (as > a whole) took about 60% of internet bandwidth usage at end of 2004, of > which about 35% is BitTorrent. It stands to reason that these numbers > have grown significantly in the last two years. > > OTOH - this study was done by a company that sells bandwidth management > products to ISPs, so it stands to reason that their numbers might be a > bit exaggerated. > > -- > Oded > > ::.. > "No job too big; no fee too big!" > -- Dr. Peter Venkman, "Ghost-busters" > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
