3 May
2011
3 May
'11
12:42 a.m.
On Mon, 2 May 2011 14:19:13 -0700 Drew drew.kay@gmail.com wrote:
- Irrespective of cost, sometimes heavy downloading can eat into a
connection's bandwidth and kill the connection for everyone else. In fact, upgrading to a flat rate plan encourages this kind of behaviour more.
If the ISP offer's "flat rate" or "capped flat rate" services and can't handle the load, that's their problem, not ours. It just means they didn't do their infrastructure capacity planning properly.
I meant everyone else on that one connection, not the ISPs other customers. If you have a 3Mbit link, you are restricted to 3Mbit bandwidth. If someone is downloading hell for leather, then this will affect everyone else sharing that connection.
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