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"Being able to handle everyone using their connections to the full at all times would require being able to deal with massively more usage then you ever practic
by betterunix 13y ago
"Being able to handle everyone using their connections to the full at all times would require being able to deal with massively more usage then you ever practically see"
So what? All that means is that you can oversell throughput. How does it imply that people cannot or should not be running any particular service over their connection?
The real barrier to hosting commercial services on residential connections should be technical. Your service has little to no uptime guarantee, little to no throughput guarantee, and no guarantee of a static IP address (though with dynamic DNS this might not really matter). That is enough to discourage commercial services, at least at any scale that anyone could care about.
- IanCal 13y ago> How does it imply that people cannot or should not be running any particular service over their connection? To limit the number of people massively over-using their connection? > The real barrier to hosting commercial services on residential connections should be technical. Those are just reasons why a service would be unreliable. This would give another good reason for the split, occasional downtime wouldn't render a home connection to be branded as "not fit for purpose". You can't claim it was mis-sold if you were explicitly told you can't run commercial services on it.
- __david__ 13y agoIt's not overuse if you're using the bandwidth that is advertised. If they can't handle you using the bandwidth, then they shouldn't offer it.
- IanCal 13y agoDid you read my comment? To do that they'd have to cut all the speeds drastically, but charge the same.
- __david__ 13y agoThat's their problem, not mine. I'm not the one that lied to get business.
- IanCal 13y agoI'd have a worse service for the same money. It would force the situation to always be exactly the same as the worst possible situation now (everyone using it at the same time), assuming it was done perfectly. How is that their problem? How is me getting a slower service for the same price not my problem? Second, where did they lie? My terms and conditions explicitly state that speed is dependent on many factors, including the number of active users.
- __david__ 13y agoNo, you'd have the same service for the same money. It would just be labeled correctly, and not a complete fabrication.