Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks?

Fri Oct 26 10:18:01 UTC 2007

> The problem is that ISPs work under the assumption that users only
> use a certain percentage of their available bandwidth, while (some)  users 
> work under the assumption that they get to use all their  available 
> bandwidth 24/7 if they choose to do so.

My home dsl is 6mb/384k, so what exactly is the true cost of a dedicated 
384K of bandwidth? I mean what you say would be true if we were talking 
download but for most dsl up speed is so insignificant compared to downspeed 
I have trouble believing that the true cost for 24x7 isn't being paid. It's 
just that some of the cable services are offering more up speed (1mb plus) 
and so are getting a disproportionate amount of fileshare upload traffic (if 
a download takes X minutes more is upload by a source on a 1mb upload pipe 
compared to a 384k upload pipe so the upload totals are greater for the 
cable isp).

Geo.

George Roettger
Netlink Services 