ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

Wed Jan 9 21:11:54 UTC 2008

On 9 Jan 2008, at 20:04, Deepak Jain wrote:

> I remember Bill Norton's peering forum regarding P2P traffic and  
> how the majority of it is between cable and other broadband  
> providers... Operationally, why not just lash a few additional 10GE  
> cross-connects and let these *paying customers* communicate as they  
> will?

This does nothing to affect last-mile costs, and these costs could be  
the reason that you need to cap at all (certainly this is the case in  
the UK).