Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
>
> On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Matthew Dalton wrote:
>
> > Well, to me it would be reasonable for them to just say "You can have
> > 13k/sec upstream bandwidth. Do what you like with it."
>
> However by doing that they would degrade the downstream performance.
> Upstream bandwidth is a factor in your experience: latency increases with
> lower speeds, online games will slow down etc etc
But didn't someone already say that they get suspicious if your upstream
bandwidth increases over a certain level? From your statement above,
Optus must be getting suspicios of every Quake player on the O@H
network.
> > Of course, enforcing the allocated upstream bandwith may be difficult.
> > I'm sure there are ways to monitor such a thing and issue
> > warnings/cancel accounts where appropriate though.
>
> You can't tell me they're not already monitoring how much every user is
> using? I'm sure they are! It wouldn't be hard to attach alarms to such
> monitoring which automagically email the user asking them to reduce their
> usage. After a pre-determined period it emails a support person who can
> check it out and decide whether to terminate the account.
I'm not saying that they're not already doing it -- I agree, they
probably are.
Matthew
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