This ADSL connection I'm using here is discounted for low daytime use (when I'm sat at the end of 2Gb/s link :-) ), but it's a very soft limit with the ISP issuing warnings for over use before finally urging you to upgrade or cease the service. It's basically means you can't use Kazaa/Gnutella/ED2K during the day. I think ISPs will move towards QoS in the core network for those protocols, simply because prioritising telnet/ssh/HTTP/SMTP over them will make them "seem" a faster network, interactively. Dom - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dom De Vitto Tel. 07855 805 271 http://www.devitto.com mailto:domat_private - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -----Original Message----- From: Peter Gutmann [mailto:pgut001at_private] Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 4:02 AM To: ameadenat_private; vuln-devat_private Subject: Re: "download" caps Andrew Meaden <ameadenat_private> writes: >Telcos in .au are starting to introduce plans (optus@home cable, iinet >adsl >etc) whereby you get a monthly cap that's soft; at the time the cap is >reached, the rate is limited (either severely or lightly, depending on the >quality of the plan) and no excess data charges are inflicted upon the user. That's what we need here. The official story was that it was technically impossible to do. I don't know enough about what's installed here to tell whether this is really true or not, but it did sound like a convenient way to get out of doing it that way. Peter.
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