>They do this for metering, I think -- I worked on the cable system
>for a while, and when I was working on it, *everything* was proxied
>through a gauntlet firewall, where the proxies have been altered to
>measure traffic and assign it to individual users. Traffic to the
>`free zones' is not metered -- that's handled by the proxy cache.
Of course, things would be a lot better if there weren't mindless idiots
around who want to download GBs of crap. If that were not the case,
Telstra wouldn't really need to monitor the amount of downloads and
everything would probably run a lot more smoothly.
As always, it's a few dickheads who spoil it for everyone else.
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