> Is it reasonable for your filesharing of your family
photos and video
> clips to cause problems for all the other users of the
network? Is that
> fair or just greedy?
It's damn well fair, is what it is. Is it somehow better
for me to go and
e-mail the photos and movies around? What if I really don't
want to
involve the ISP's servers, because they've proven to be
unreliable, or I
don't want them capturing backup copies, or whatever?
My choice of technology for distributing my pictures, in
this case, would
probably result in *lower* overall bandwidth consumption by
the ISP, since
some bandwidth might be offloaded to Uncle Fred in Topeka,
and Grandma
Jones in Detroit, and Brother Tom in Florida who happens to
live on a much
higher capacity service.
If filesharing my family photos with friends and family is
sufficient to
cause my ISP to buckle, there's something very wrong.
... JG
--
Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
"We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me
one chance [and] then I
won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n
position on e-mail spam(CNN)
With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way
too many apples.
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