The status of consumer rate limiting?
Stephen J. Wilcox
steve at telecomplete.co.uk
Wed Jul 23 00:40:20 UTC 2003
Since some p2p programs now use well known port numbers allocated to other
things eg port 80, is it even possible to block/rate limit them? And have folks
attempts at blocking caused this move to use such port numbers which imho is not
a good thing..
Steve
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Fletcher E Kittredge wrote:
>
>
> > Are you controlling peer-to-peer traffic in some way (i.e.
> > rate-limiting, blocking, etc)?
> >
>
> no
>
> > Do you have plans to control peer-to-peer traffic?
>
> no
>
> > Are you imposing other total traffic download/upload limits?
>
> no
>
> Additional comment: we market based on "no limits" and so far have
> met our expectations of doing very well against competitors that
> limit. I don't think limiting is viable in the long run...
>
> regards,
> fletcher
>
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