From my experience, the Internet IP Transit Bandwidth costs ISP's a lot more than the margins made on Broadband lines.
So users who rarely use their connection are more profitable to the ISP. We used the Cisco Service Control Engine (SCE) to throttle P2P bandwidth. Stephen Bailey IS Network Services - FUJITSU Fujitsu Services Limited, Registered in England no 96056, Registered Office 22 Baker Street, London, W1U 3BW This e-mail is only for the use of its intended recipient. Its contents are subject to a duty of confidence and may be privileged. Fujitsu Services does not guarantee that this e-mail has not been intercepted and amended or that it is virus-free. -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Mikael Abrahamsson Sent: 14 January 2008 17:22 To: nanog list Subject: RE: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Frank Bulk wrote:
In other words, you're denying the reality that people download a 3 to 4 times more than they upload and penalizing every in trying to attain a
1:1 ratio.
That might be your reality. My reality is that people with 8/1 ADSL download twice as much as they upload, people with 10/10 upload twice as much as they download. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se