BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

Wed Oct 24 18:10:37 UTC 2007

On 24-okt-2007, at 16:44, Rod Beck wrote:

> The vast bulk of users have no idea how many bytes they consume  
> each month or the bytes generated by different applications. The  
> schemes being advocated in this discussion require that the end  
> users be Layer 3 engineers.

Users more or less know what a gigabyte is, because when they  
download too many of them, it fills up their drive. If the limits are  
high enough that only actively using high-bandwidth apps has any  
danger of going over them, the people using those apps will find the  
time to educate themselves. It's not that hard: an hour of video  
conferencing (500 kbps) is 450 MB, downloading a gigabyte is.. 1 GB.