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ian@huth · 11-10-2003, 10:55

The train analogy is rather flawed as a comparison. It assumes that one passenger takes up one seat. You could have the situation where several large people take up more than one seat each, somebody has vandalised a carriage and is virtually unusable or the ultimate that a gunman has forced all the passengers into the end carriage and his accomplice is pilfering from the luggage and bags left behind. In the latter case two people could occupy 80% of the train whilst 98% of the passengers are crowded ino the other 20%.

The other point to note is what is going on during non-peak times, particularly during the night. Most users are tucked up in bed or may be posting on a forum or in achat room. None of these consume much bandwidth. The file sharers though are likewise tucked up in bed but their computers are hard at work both downloading and uploading. They could be consuming well over 90% of the bandwidth at this time.

If you look at the total data moved by file sharers and compare it to the data moved by others you can see that a small percentage of customers can be responsible for a very large percentage of data moved.

11-10-2003, 10:55	#23
ian@huth Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Huthwaite, Nottinghamshire Services: VM 10Mb, TU, 1xSky HD, 2xSky+ (HD,all packs, sports & movies) 2xDVD PVR's, Freesat Freeview & other Posts: 4,536	Re: Goodbye to a flat rate for broadband? The train analogy is rather flawed as a comparison. It assumes that one passenger takes up one seat. You could have the situation where several large people take up more than one seat each, somebody has vandalised a carriage and is virtually unusable or the ultimate that a gunman has forced all the passengers into the end carriage and his accomplice is pilfering from the luggage and bags left behind. In the latter case two people could occupy 80% of the train whilst 98% of the passengers are crowded ino the other 20%. The other point to note is what is going on during non-peak times, particularly during the night. Most users are tucked up in bed or may be posting on a forum or in achat room. None of these consume much bandwidth. The file sharers though are likewise tucked up in bed but their computers are hard at work both downloading and uploading. They could be consuming well over 90% of the bandwidth at this time. If you look at the total data moved by file sharers and compare it to the data moved by others you can see that a small percentage of customers can be responsible for a very large percentage of data moved.