On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Matthew Dalton wrote:
> Well, to me it would be reasonable for them to just say "You can have
> 13k/sec upstream bandwidth. Do what you like with it." then let us run a
> server if we want. They might have to get someone in to do tech support
> for Linux (like setting up a traffic shaper etc...), but they're a big
> company, I'm sure it wouldn't kill them to hire an extra guy.
However by doing that they would degrade the downstream performance.
Upstream bandwidth is a factor in your experience: latency increases with
lower speeds, online games will slow down etc etc
> Of course, enforcing the allocated upstream bandwith may be difficult.
> I'm sure there are ways to monitor such a thing and issue
> warnings/cancel accounts where appropriate though.
You can't tell me they're not already monitoring how much every user is
using? I'm sure they are! It wouldn't be hard to attach alarms to such
monitoring which automagically email the user asking them to reduce their
usage. After a pre-determined period it emails a support person who can
check it out and decide whether to terminate the account.
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