Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

Wed Oct 10 22:09:16 UTC 2007

On Oct 10, 2007, at 5:18 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

>
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Joe Greco wrote:
>
>> One of the biggest challenges for the Internet has got to be the  
>> steadily
>> increasing storage market, combined with the continued development of
>> small, portable processors for every application, meaning that  
>> there's
>> been an explosion of computing devices.
>
> The one thing that scares me the most is that I have discovered  
> people around me that use their bittorrent clients with rss feeds  
> from bittorrent sites to download "everything" (basically, or at  
> least a category) and then just delete what they don't want.  
> Because they're paying for flat rate there is little incentive in  
> trying to save on bandwidth.
>
> If this spreads, be afraid, be very afraid. I can't think of  
> anything more bandwidth intensive than video, no software updates  
> downloads in the world can compete with people automatically  
> downloading DVDRs or xvids of tv shows and movies, and then  
> throwing it away because they were too lazy to set up proper  
> filtering in the first place.
>

Many people leave the TV on all the time, at least while they are home.

On the Internet broadcasting side, we (AmericaFree.TV) have some  
viewers that do the same - one has racked
up a cumulative 109 _days_ of viewing so far this year. (109 days in  
280 days duration works out to 9.3 hours per day.) I am sure that  
other video providers can provide similar reports. So, I don't think  
that things are that different here in the new regime.

Regards
Marshall

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