-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
At 15:16 06/02/2002 +0000, kevin lyda wrote:
>yeah, but at least educom have an excuse - increasing bandwidth involves
>a rocket launch. eircom at worst needs to order an additional line or
>get more building space.
>>one problem i have is that isp's should differentiate between external
>traffic, and traffic inside the isp. people snarfing oodles of data
>from a server inside an isp (squid, ftp server, etc) should get charged
>less then people snarfing oodles of pr0n from outside the isp.
>obviously this doesn't matter for educom.
Way too messy to manage in the general case (but then bandwidth limitation
on a per user basis is messy full stop).
Anyway, my understanding is that the bandwidth limitation is concerned with
the traffic through the DSL cloud - not what happens once your traffic
reaches the ISP's NOC. If I'm correct (and I'll only know I will be if
and when Esat/VIA/someone else have an alternative DSL offering) then
whether the traffic is local or international isn't really a factor.
T.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com>
iQA/AwUBPGFwcL6WYZbx1eG3EQIFDwCg+WkJHqKeJoJ8YM9nVIcEbjNTFMUAoL+D
TGr/n/giX4+IE/WQzDdibRFf
=VP72
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Maintained by the ILUG website team. The aim of Linux.ie is to
support and help commercial and private users of Linux in Ireland. You can
display ILUG news in your own webpages, read backend
information to find out how. Networking services kindly provided by HEAnet, server kindly donated by
Dell. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds,
used with permission. No penguins were harmed in the production or maintenance
of this highly praised website. Looking for the
Indian Linux Users' Group? Try here. If you've read all this and aren't a lawyer: you should be!
