ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

Sun Jan 13 19:47:13 UTC 2008

> The vast majority of our last-mile connections are fixed wireless.   The
> design of the system is essentially half-duplex with an adjustable ratio 
> between download/upload traffic.

This in a nutshell is the problem, the ratio between upload and download 
should be 1:1 and if it were then there would be no problems. Folks need to 
stop pretending they aren't part of the internet. Setting a ratio where 
upload:download is not 1:1 makes you a leech. It's a cheat designed to allow 
technology companies to claim their devices provide more bandwidth than they 
actually do. Bandwidth is 2 way, you should give as much as you get.

Making the last mile a 18x unbalanced pipe (ie 6mb down and 384K up) is what 
has created this problem, not file sharing, not running backups, not any of 
the things that require up speed. For the entire internet up speed must 
equal down speed or it can't work. You can't leech and expect everyone else 
to pay for your unbalanced approach.

Geo. 