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Originally Posted by ianathuth
My position is:
I do not want capping.
I do not want metered broadband.
I just want to use my connection when I want and as much as I want without being unduly affected by other users at a reasonable cost.
In essence this situation is unachievable unless there is some control over how we all use the internet.
My belief is that the situation is achievable at this moment in time if every user was willing to obey the laws of this land.
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All you need to do is go to a service provider that uses contention ratios that suit your usage (and is well run).
See
http://www.anticap.co.uk/mythbusters.php
(same link I used in post above btw)
If you reduce usage by (somehow? how?) banning P2P all that will happen is that ISP will load more users onto the network (and it you are _lucky_ reduce the price, but i doubt it with most) until you are back where you started, except with a lower capcity infrastructure (than if they had upgrade the network to meet demand). So what do you do then ? Find some other usage to ban ?
You think that P2P cause congestion but it is USAGE that causes congestion. Remove one kind of usage and either another will take it's place or the ISP will 'load up' thier networks till you are back where you started.