Re: "download" caps

Likewise as Peter said, traffic here in New Zealand (and I believe most of Australia also) has already moved most of the plans to a byte charged system.

The user purchases an account with xyz MB/month, over & above that they pay so many cents per MB. Some having a different charging rate for national vs. international traffic. The national traffic being cheaper.

Both the Cable & ADSL providers in NZ work around that philosphy.

I've personally encountered exactly what you described. I ended up loosing 500mb on a 10gig/month plan at one stage, when someone decided to perform a mini DDOS. 500mb in 2 mins, on a 128kbit/s link. Most of the data never reached me, but as far as the ISP was concerned it was destined for me, so I get the bill for it. I should probably consider myself lucky they didn't leave it going for a couple of hours. But it's a case in point example of how easily it could affect someone.

Not quite a vuln-dev type thing, but a seemingly steady trend in the ISP market.

Jp.

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> J Edgar Hoover <zorch@totally.righteous.net> writes:
Received on Wed Nov 27 13:55:41 2002