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Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance
- From: Mikael Abrahamsson
- Date: Thu Mar 31 11:04:09 2005
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Korea Telecom recently decided to scrap its flat rate high speed [1]
broadband offering and move to a traffic based charging plan - must be
because most korean broadband gets used for online gaming, which is as
high bandwidth use an app as you can get ... and they're hit by the same
situation, which does start to bite when a few users start maxing out
their pipes, and really begins to hurt when "few" suddenly becomes
"most"
My guess would be that PtP is a much bigger bandwidth hog than gaming,
especially for the people who have high upstream capacity (10meg+).
Seeing IX traffic exchange between local 10meg full duplex providers and
ADSL providers is kind of fun, with traffic ratios of 1:5 or worse not
being uncommon.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
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