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Originally Posted by jtwn
As I said previously, its not a feasible reason that ntl would throttle back traffic if that was so, as there are many providers who still offer unlimited round the world.
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I personally think its a very feasible reason, and explains a lot.
Peering cost big money as I understand it, some of it seems to be done for almost nothing or on the basis of like for like.
If NTL really had total freedom to route any amount of traffic anywhere then the network would be fabulous, and the envy of the world, as we know that isn't the case, small pipes where there should be fat pipes and all that.
Unlimited only exists as a customer selling point, it means nothing to bandwidth providers I'd guess.
A good example of a similar situation, although more exaggerated, is with South Korea, massive bandwidth is available *inside* the country in major cities, they make our 10mb connections look like nothing, they regularily shift gigs of bandwidth between users (their free email and storage sites run into 50 or 100 gig instead of the 1 or 2 gig Yahoo or Google give (PDBox.co.kr gives 100 gig of space I think from memory) - BUT their external links are pooh, I have a few friends out there, and video conferencing with them etc is rubbish, peering again, I doubt if most providers out there pay for much, or can trade bandwidth with the rest of the world as the huge majority of traffic stays in the country.