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Re: ISP
- To: Miki Shapiro <aris(at-nospam)pharoe.com>
- Subject: Re: ISP
- From: Oded Arbel <odeda-linux-il(at-nospam)betalfa.org.il>
- Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 13:34:37 +0000 (/etc/localtime)
- Cc: Happy Linux Campers <linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>
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- In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105232216490.6033-100000@pharoe.com>
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On Wed, 23 May 2001, Miki Shapiro wrote:
> This is shtuyot bemitz. If you're gonna hog your internet link, you're
> gonna hog, NAT or no NAT. If you're not gonna hog, you're not gonna hog,
> NAT or no NAT. It depends solely on what you like to do with you inet
> link - read mail or run a background news client downloading DivX ISO
> movie images or compy games 7 days a week around the clock. (which a few
> of my friends do by the way and I believe is a very widespread phenomenon)
<lots of irrelevant comparisons snipped>
Like so many of the people who responded on the subject - you sacceeded in
completly failing to understand the point ;-)
There was an ISP in Singapure or something that prevented its home users
from doing NAT, but this really isn't the thing here in Israel -
Like so many has said - the ISP has no way to check - nor do they care -
if you use 1 computer at home, or 3 through NAT. what the ISPs are trying
to prevent is small buisnesses connecting through ADSL on NAT.
*ON THE AVERAGE* a small buisness generates much more traffic on the same
links as *THE AVERAGE* home user - usually around the clock.
(sorry I had to shout back there, but people here seem to forget that an
ISP deals with tens of thousands of users, and for each "Jane
bandwidth-hogger" there're at least 100 "Joe I-only-read-my-email").
The point is , that a home user will sometimes hog his connection
(probably a lot rarely then you think), a buisness will always hog his
connection - by the simple usage pattern of everyone surfing the web
together on company time and a few guys downloading MP3.
Oded
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