> > Not to rain on your parade or anthing, but for what it is worth, Optus has
> > exactly this sort of a problem at the moment, with too many of there users
> > trying to use all of the bandwidth at once and run it as fast as they can
> > 24/7.
> >
> > Cable is a rather different beast to a dial up modem, and the usage etc is
> > more open to abuse (as optus has discovered), so i think your comaprision
> > doesn't really work that well.
>
> ADSL is open to exactly the same kind of abuse. Failure to restrain
> abusers is the road to ruin, whether it's on cable, ADSL, ISDN, PSTN or
> carrier pigeons.
we could use the TCP/IP over avian tunneling protcol with carrier pidgeons
;)
But more seriously, i meant ADSL as well when i said cable.
The point was compared to a slow time or d/l limited dial up, abuse was
much less of a problem becasue of the different bandwidth availabilites.
Jason
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