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 -- Be different: conform. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
