RE: 10MB broadband for me then!

["Dean Smith" <dean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(l33t users sharing warez _may_ be on the radar but I doubt it)

Actually file-sharing applications come pretty high on the % utilisation
stats for most ISPs. Very firmly on the radar.
-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
David Greaves
Sent: 13 August 2005 18:49
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] 10MB broadband for me then!


Phil Harris wrote:

> Of course the reason we want higher upstream speeds (and precisely the
> reason they don't want to give us higher upstream speeds) is so that
> we can
> run home servers and they are more than aware of this and are trying
> to find
> implementable ways to nobble the home server user.

I'd actually suspect that:
a) they're playing serious marketing user-aquisition games and the
public think that 10+384 is better than 8+4

b) they want to maximise downstream so you can eventually subscribe to
'pay per view' services like "watch last night's Eastenders for
50p"

and they actually don't give a flying fig about geeks running servers :)
(l33t users sharing warez _may_ be on the radar but I doubt it)

David







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