p2pnet - rss feed: Tiscali warns bandwith hogs
p2p news / p2pnet:- Britain’s Tiscali has calculated around 1% of its 600,000 or so broadband users are draining up to 30% cent of available bandwidth during peak hours and to stop them, has adopted a three warnings policy.
“If punters fail to moderate their usage, then the ISP plans to restrict their usage during peak hours ‘for the good of all other customers’,” says The Register.
“However, the ISP has made it clear that the restrictions - should they be introduced - would only apply at peak times and not during other parts of the day.”
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The Register - Tiscali targets P2P bandwidth hogs, September 2, 2005
September 3rd, 2005 at 3:50 pm
hmm me thinks this article was nicked from slyck
September 3rd, 2005 at 8:26 pm
If my ISP EVER does this to me… I will promptly cancel my service and switch to an ISP that wont do this…
September 3rd, 2005 at 11:59 pm
A subscriber pays a subscription to the service for some bandwith. THe company places a cap on how much d/u they have. The company has NO right to lower their bandwith usage. If a company does that then they can be sued for false advertising.
The company set limits to the users from the beginning its not like they threw them into a pool of unlimited bandwith.
September 3rd, 2005 at 11:59 pm
Do you work for Slyck or something?
I get up at 4 or 5 every morning, 24/7, and start looking for stories or leads. The web pages I check include Google, Yahoo, the BBC, AfterDawn, P2PConsortium and, Yes, Slyck, as well as a lot of others. And I frequently see stuff on Slyck that I have too. So? More power to them. I sure as hell don’t get my knickers in a twist or start posting anonymous drivel on their site.
As I said in response to your other post here http://p2pnet.net/story/6128 (and who knows where else ; ) “It really burns me to see people who are supposed to be part of the same community being so petty. We should all be backing each other up. And we can’t do that effectively while we’re snapping at each other’s heels.
“ ‘Nicked’ is an English euphemism for ’stolen’. Nothing has been ’stolen’ from anyone. So let’s stop worrying about this kind of crap and get back to what we’re supposed to be doing: presenting information that doesn’t merely represent wholly self-interested corporate points of view.
There’s no competition and it doesn’t matter who’s first or last with a story. The important thing is to get the message out, and the more sites that carry it, the better.
However, I have to admit it’d be nice if we were all on the same page : )
And by way of a PS - I was trained in Britain starting off on a small weekly newspaper, graduating to a provincial daily and ending up on a Fleet Street publication. One of the things I had to do as a junior was go through the competition, looking for stories my paper had missed, or for follow-ups. Then I’d pass them to the senior reporter who’d decide what to do with them. When I got to be a senior running a news team, I expected the same.
And this ends here, as far as I’m concerned anyway.
Cheers!
September 4th, 2005 at 1:12 am
Until they all do this….
September 4th, 2005 at 2:38 am
They all do this to some extent, if a particular user’s activities are increasing the risk crumping a node or hosing a backhaul on the ISP’s network. Some are more gracious and professional about it where a very senior engineer will call to discuss the issues and “determine a mutually resolution.” This is how Speakeasy handled things when my bandwith usage was up in the 85%+ range between web servers, e-mail servers, p2p, internet radio, streaming video, etc. I now do most of my ‘heavy usage’ outside of the 9AM - 6PM, M-F window.
Others are more crass and vulgar and will just pull the plug on you without warning. When you call to find out why your broadband connection had suddenly stopped working, you get scolded as though you were a naughty child and tersely informed that your account has been summarily terminated for violating the “Terms of Service” and/or “Acceptable Use” policies. (These are usually worded in such a vague and non-specific manner that almost anything you might do on the internet could be classified as a violation.) Some practitioners of this technique would include Comcast & Verizon. Others, such as Optimum On-line (Cablevision) will remotely cap your cable modem and not tell you.
Just because they advertized you can get 6Mbps downloads apparently doesn’t always mean 6Mbps. They conveniently omitted qualifying the measurement for the data rate as burst or sustained. Another pervasive half-truth in advertizing.
September 4th, 2005 at 4:11 am
Which is of course exactly what they WANT you to do…
September 4th, 2005 at 11:26 am
I’m not suprized. Comcast has a policy that was outted by C-Net (aka News Pusher) that if your monthly bandwidth usage exceeds about twice the average, then they will start sending you warning letters. After that they will terminate you. At least the DSL providers don’t have this limit.
September 5th, 2005 at 7:21 am
We are in control. If all of the ISP’s start restricting, or if your ISP is restricting and is also a local monopoly, then the next option is FreeWan. A FreeWan Cell can be connect to others via the cartel controlled Internet or else files can be shared via “sneakernet.” As peer to peer grows and the cartels try to stop it, they will eventually either buy the ISP’s or else use some kind of coercion.
Cartels negotiate and cooperate amongst themselves. They will not stand for the “consumers” win one round, it will hurt the rest of them. Look at what happened when email became popular. The telephone and post office lost big time. If independent media become popular among the general population. The cartels will lose control of the hearts and minds of the people. People may very well come up with alternative to feeding the cartels in power.
The cartels control the infrastructure, but they do not control the local airwaves. I am currently conducting experiments in order to extend the range and ease of use for connection and file transfer between cells. I want to see drive by download capabilities in a few months.
Also, it would be nice to see bandwith sharing occure among FreeWan cell users (each computer with an Internet connection should be set to download a specific part of a particular file. FreeWan will become popular (even if it is under a different name).