Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

Fri Oct 5 12:47:01 UTC 2007

On Fri, Oct 05, 2007, michael.dillon at bt.com wrote:
> 
> 
> > And before anyone accuses me of sounding overly critical 
> > towards the AU ISP's, let me point out that we've dropped the 
> > ball in a major way here in the United States, as well.
> 
> We've dropped the ball in any place where the broadband architecture is
> to backhaul IP packets from the site where DSL or cable lines are
> concentrated, into an ISP's PoP. This means that P2P packets between
> users at the same concentration site, are forced to trombone back and
> forth over the same congested circuits. And P2P is the main way to
> reduce the overall load that video places on the Internet.

Hm, Australia is pretty much that exact architecture.

Adrian