Jason Rennie wrote:
> > > 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.
Understood. I misread your comment.
You're right, if a service provider has not learnt to adequately manage
abuse, then the transition to broadband for home users (where the
budgeted use is a much smaller fraction of the available capacity than
is the case with smaller capacity modems) will probably hurt.
- Raz
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