On Mon, 2 May 2011 14:19:13 -0700 Drew <drew.kay at gmail.com> wrote: > > 3. 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. -- Spiro Harvey Knossos Networks Ltd (04) 460-2531 : (021) 295-1923 www.knossos.net.nz -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110503/d59ad1f3/attachment-0005.sig>