SlashDot: "Comcast Gunning for NAT Users"

Thu Jan 31 19:13:10 UTC 2002

On Thursday, January 31, 2002, at 10:24 AM, Conrad A. Rockenhaus wrote:

> snip

> When someone's running NAT, the bandwidth is distributed between the users
> behind the NAT device.
>
> If someone's assigned 512K, they can only use up to 512K, be it one
> computer, or several behind a NAT device.

Ive often pondered the feasibility of port based bandwidth rate control, 
and if broadband providers would ever actually implement it, whether 
protected by Ts&Cs or not.

jm