On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Harry Ohlsen wrote:
> >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.
Yeah, telstra always makes decisions in the best interests of it's
customers, and it's the evil customers that screw things up.
</sarcasm>
I download GBs of stuff (I resent the characterisation of things like
debian iso's as "crap"), and my downloading is unlimited. There goes
that theory, because, where it true, they wouldn't be offering any
unlimited accounts. Telstra's decisions are not driven by common sense,
but rather by a combination of what they can get away with and pure
idiocy. In a vacuum, they probably wouldn't be providing ADSL yet at
all.
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