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Originally Posted by mcmanic
its only fact for P2P freeloaders who don't want/not allowed to pay for a decent newsgroup service and need a high upstream to get a decent downstream, if you go on a newsgroup which on 3meg only uses 11-14kb/sec upstream, so for 10meg (if you can ever get a full 10meg downstream would still be way,way under and not so important.
Cap the upstream i say - disgruntle the P2P users downloading their mp3's,games and the likes, this would make the network so much better for all of us.
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10Mbit = about 200kbps of upstream required for Usenet.
LOL @ P2P freeloaders though, paying a newsgroup service a few quid a month to download dodgy material isn't exactly paying ntl for the pleasure, and certainly not the content producers.
Presumably if people paid to use P2P that'd be quite acceptable?
Oh and those eeevil people who actually
upload the stuff you download from Usenet. How dare they! A cap on upstreams would I hate to point out kill Usenet binaries as well.
Personally I think they should stick to the current 10:1 ratio and do some traffic management to ensure that gack doesn't clog the upstreams
This way upstream is available when it's needed, while P2P rapeage is controlled accordingly. I've little time for people who upload 24x7, no need for it.
However Telewest's about 30:1 is farcical and a product of both their obsession with remaining uncapped and their pre-existing issues with upstream congestion.