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The article also assume that the client bandwidth is unlimited, but in reality more and more ISPs have data caps. If a p2p network would become this large, the
by tmikaeld 9y ago
The article also assume that the client bandwidth is unlimited, but in reality more and more ISPs have data caps.
If a p2p network would become this large, the need for more client bandwidth would increase exponentially.
- pdimitar 9y agoWhere do you see these "more and more ISPs having data caps" exactly, please? I live in Eastern Europe and I have a legit gigabit connection with no limits. A load of people around here pay $10 for 75Mbps and connections most USA can only dream of. Assuming you talk about USA... just saying, world > USA.
- tmikaeld 9y agoAll mobile broadband isps in eu and Asia (where they usually cannot get anything else) have caps at just a few gigs of data. Even in Sweden, they are adding hidden limits when reaching a TB of data on cabled broadband. This means streaming 4K video will reach these limits.
- pdimitar 9y agoI definitely agree for the rural / less accessible areas. Carriers definitely have a monopoly there and certain countries like Sweden, Norway and Finland are too vast to have good cabled coverage. In most of the EU cities you got plenty of choice however.
- tmikaeld 9y agoThat's absolutely true, the closer to the root nodes of EU you get the cheaper the bandwidth is. Heck, in Romania you can even get 10Gbit on a small datacenter for a few thousand €. So sure, if the larger nodes can weigh up the smaller ones in a distributed network, then it might be plausible.