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Re: ISP



Hi, Nadav!

On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:34:56AM +0300, you wrote the following:

> Some people have one machine connected to ADSL and download Linux
> distributions or listen to online music all day, and other people
> connect 3 machines with very light email and occasional surfing
> load.
> 
> Do the ISPs actually care (I mean, is it in their contract) whether
> you do the former or the latter? How come?

Yes, they care, because on the average, the more machines you connect
the more traffic you'll see. (I don't see the relevance of your
example above -- of course there are extreme cases in any
situation!). That's why the contract says that you can't connect a
network to the ADSL line, but only a single computer.


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