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21-02-2004, 16:53

Hi

First let me put on my flame suit.

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Here's a little food for thought though, no news to me, UK ISPs have been looking at metering etc for some time:
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/n...FVluyZMVUvxBrP[/QUOTE]

This link has a point on it that struck a cord with me. Users on here say that they download legal stuff from sites that allow pay for content, Download Linux distro's and stuff like that.

My point is the comment "leading to their consideration of unpopular measures such as port throttling P2P sites"

For me that would not be a problem as any stuff i download is not from p2p and therefor would not be affected by port throttling. This would cut down on a lot of the high bandwidth that is being used at the moment by those that do download 8-10gig perday day in day out from p2p sites.

Plus if the throttle was only on at peek times you could control the damage that p2p can create.

There flame suit on ready to be shot down.

21-02-2004, 16:53	#478
Optiplex Guest Posts: n/a	Re: 1GB Cap Letter!!!! Hi First let me put on my flame suit. quote Here's a little food for thought though, no news to me, UK ISPs have been looking at metering etc for some time: http://www.ispreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/n...FVluyZMVUvxBrP[/QUOTE] This link has a point on it that struck a cord with me. Users on here say that they download legal stuff from sites that allow pay for content, Download Linux distro's and stuff like that. My point is the comment "leading to their consideration of unpopular measures such as port throttling P2P sites" For me that would not be a problem as any stuff i download is not from p2p and therefor would not be affected by port throttling. This would cut down on a lot of the high bandwidth that is being used at the moment by those that do download 8-10gig perday day in day out from p2p sites. Plus if the throttle was only on at peek times you could control the damage that p2p can create. There flame suit on ready to be shot down.