BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

Wed Oct 24 09:14:42 UTC 2007

On Tue, October 23, 2007 5:17 pm, Jack Bates wrote:

> Sorry, I am the incumbent. ;) I was just thinking of the copper necessary
>  to do such a task on a massive scale. It's definitely not in the ground
> or on a pole at this point in time. One reason DSL was so desireable for
> many small ILECs was the recovery of copper from dual phone lines caused
> by dialup.

Oops - hope I didn't say anything *too* offensive ;)  And thanks for the
perspective from the "other side".

Regards,
Tim.