Don't know about other providers, but frankly, I'd love for my customers to download more, and balance my outgoing traffic so I can get more peering, so if you have some application that downloads data and you want to host it for free, bring it on :)
See, most DSL providers already have side business of colo/dedicated hosting, and downstream bandwidth needs of DSL customers is -very- quickly eclipsed by hosting customers. -- Alex Pilosov | DSL, Colocation, Hosting Services President | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (800) 710-7031 Pilosoft, Inc. | http://www.pilosoft.com On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Daniel Thor Kristjansson wrote: > I doubt that we will see these unofficial caps with bway, cloud9, > acedsl, etc. They read this forum and know that the word would spread > quickly if they did something like that. I and many others don't have a > problem with caps per say, but with the unknowable nature of how these > are enforced. If, for instance, I knew I had a 2 GB per day limit I > would break up my download of the latest Mandrake beta (2.1GB) over several > days instead of doing it all at once. And if the ISP wanted me to cut > back I would want there to be a web page where I could see how close I > was getting to the quota, and a chance to purchase more bandwidth if I > needed it. And it shouldn't cost me anything toward the cap if I made > sure to download an iso from the ISP (cloud9 mirrors NetBSD for > instance.) -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
