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As others have commented, ISPs explicitly do not want this happening. One of the service tiers at my house was previously advertised as 900/35. 900 Mbps down, 3

As others have commented, ISPs explicitly do not want this happening. One of the service tiers at my house was previously advertised as 900/35. 900 Mbps down, 35 mbps up. Now, there are no ISPs that rate the upload speed at all. At least one of the ISPs at my house has language in the contract that limits usage to that initiated by a live operator, so any sort of hosting is obviously prohibited. Another ISP solved this by delegating several /64 addresses, but only actually routing traffic for a single IPv6 address.

kkfx 4y ago
Here (France) I got 2Gbps down, 860Mbps up (and I'm on mountains, not downtown) so definitively asymmetric but still with a very good upload for home usages, for instance for simple p2p file sharing while on an ip2ip VoIP call with a friend, no special services in between. All we need is IMVHO a general culture on IT and it's evolution, to push politicians MANDATE no throttling, routing tricks etc with public watchdogs that sanction all anti-users behaviors in tech, not just for ISP but for instance in terms of communications service: you are a company and decide to offer a new "modern chat" service with a new protocol? Ok, no issues. Do it if you want BUT if the protocol is closed source or design in a way to makes third party "peering" hard you get significant income slice ALL THE TIME this design persist. Let's say you state "ah but file-sharing pass on our servers and bandwidth and storage are costly. That's good. So allow third party "caching services" or direct IP2IP sharing or pay the sanction for having chosen an anti-user design. Since all this "features" and "anti vs pro" can't be written in laws up front that's the simple way to go: from the PUBLIC academia a watchdog who listen FLOSS associations, citizens, users in general and keep watching not impeding, but sanctioning. Enough to allow free ALSO commercial innovation, but not enough to makes some behaviors interesting for any business.

kkfx 4y ago

Here (France) I got 2Gbps down, 860Mbps up (and I'm on mountains, not downtown) so definitively asymmetric but still with a very good upload for home usages, for instance for simple p2p file sharing while on an ip2ip VoIP call with a friend, no special services in between. All we need is IMVHO a general culture on IT and it's evolution, to push politicians MANDATE no throttling, routing tricks etc with public watchdogs that sanction all anti-users behaviors in tech, not just for ISP but for instance in terms of communications service: you are a company and decide to offer a new "modern chat" service with a new protocol? Ok, no issues. Do it if you want BUT if the protocol is closed source or design in a way to makes third party "peering" hard you get significant income slice ALL THE TIME this design persist. Let's say you state "ah but file-sharing pass on our servers and bandwidth and storage are costly. That's good. So allow third party "caching services" or direct IP2IP sharing or pay the sanction for having chosen an anti-user design. Since all this "features" and "anti vs pro" can't be written in laws up front that's the simple way to go: from the PUBLIC academia a watchdog who listen FLOSS associations, citizens, users in general and keep watching not impeding, but sanctioning. Enough to allow free ALSO commercial innovation, but not enough to makes some behaviors interesting for any business.