RE: "download" caps

This ADSL connection I'm using here is discounted for low daytime use (when I'm sat at the end of 2Gb/s link :-) ), but it's a very soft limit with the ISP issuing warnings for over use before finally urging you to upgrade or cease the service. It's basically means you can't use Kazaa/Gnutella/ED2K during the day. I think ISPs will move towards QoS in the core network for those protocols, simply because prioritising telnet/ssh/HTTP/SMTP over them will make them "seem" a faster network, interactively.

Dom
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-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Gutmann [mailto:pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz] Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 4:02 AM
To: ameaden@optusnet.com.au; vuln-dev@securityfocus.com Subject: Re: "download" caps

Andrew Meaden <ameaden@optusnet.com.au> writes:

>Telcos in .au are starting to introduce plans (optus@home cable, iinet
the
>quality of the plan) and no excess data charges are inflicted upon the
user.

That's what we need here. The official story was that it was technically impossible to do. I don't know enough about what's installed here to tell whether this is really true or not, but it did sound like a convenient way to get out of doing it that way.

Peter. Received on Mon Dec 2 04:20:14 2002