On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 00:41:09 +0200 (CEST) Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com> wrote:
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Brad Knowles wrote:
Brad> No, the traffic budget is on upstream traffic, not Brad> downstream. Stream content all you want, but don't try to Brad> generate too much upstream traffic or you get your bandwidth Brad> severely curtailed.
[The whole thing about port 80 upstream bandwidth limitations getting in the way of streaming audio/video sounds like nonsense to me, since this usually doesn't go _to_ TCP port 80, even flowing _from_ TCP port 80 is something I haven't seen this century.]
good consumer... don't try to talk. just watch the propaganda...
Yeah, well. For Internet cafe's, this is probably a fairly reasonable assumption.
Ok, suppose someone can touch type. The world record is something like 600 key presses per minute, which is 10 41-byte TCP packets per second ~= 4 kbps.
When I go to Internet cafe's (I like Global Gossip), I connect my Ti-book to the local ethernet if at all possible (that's why I like Global Gossip) and use high bit rates (i.e., file transfers) in both direction. If I was limited to 4 kbps outbound, I would want my money back. Just one customer viewpoint :) Regards Marshall Eubanks