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Re: ISP



Hi, Nadav!

On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 01:40:03PM +0300, you wrote the following:

> I'm not talking about extreme situation or someone connecting their entire
> neighborhood to his ADSL connection: I'm talking about two typical
> homes commecting to ADSL
>  1. A home with 2 computers, say for the parents and the kids, with
>     relatively light Internet usage.
>  2. A home with 1 computer, on which the kids download stuff continuously
>     for at least 5 hours a day.

But you do understand that the above situations are just as likely as
the following two:
 1. A home with 2 computers on which kids download stuff continuously
    for at least 5 hours a day.
 2. A home with 1 computer, which is used by the parents and the kids
    to check their Hotmail account once a day.

Specific examples don't prove anything in this case because opposite
examples are just as true. So you have to talk about averages instead
of specific cases. If you have one computer, it can use the Internet
either lightly or heavily. If you have two, each one of them can use
the Internet either lightly or heavily. Statistically, on the average,
if there are two computers instead of one, there will be more traffic.

It's just like oversubscribing a dial-up POP (5-10 users for each
physical line) and hoping that all the users don't call at once.
That's how ISPs work, and they aren't profitable as it is, so cut them
some slack. ADSL is very hard on them anyway -- it means providing T1
speeds at the cost of a couple of dial-up connections. They want to
minimize traffic, and they don't want to put hard limits because of
the competition, so they put this lame rule in their contract because
that's the most they can do.

I don't understand why you get so upset about this -- it's not
enforceable anyway, so you can do whatever you want.


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