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ISPs pay for bandwidth leaving and entering their network. inter-network bandwidth is actually free for them, so it's very likely spacemonkey could prefer peeri
by jtolds 15y ago
ISPs pay for bandwidth leaving and entering their network. inter-network bandwidth is actually free for them, so it's very likely spacemonkey could prefer peering with other users on the same ISP.
- kijin 15y agoThat would certainly help, but there's a limit to same-ISP peering. For example, I use a relatively small ISP, so not many people are going to be using the same ISP that I do. Even if you use a larger ISP, you're screwed if even a single person dumps 100GB/mo of data on your SpaceMonkey drive.
- wmf 15y agoUpstream bandwidth on DOCSIS causes congestion that requires capex (node splits) to fix, so it's definitely not free. See http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/74/slides/alto-1.pdf http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/74/slides/alto-1.pdf