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Isn't this bordering on illegal? It sounds like they want to resell one ISP's bandwidth to another. As I understand it ISPs are already upset about bittorrent b
by tensor 17y ago
Isn't this bordering on illegal? It sounds like they want to resell one ISP's bandwidth to another. As I understand it ISPs are already upset about bittorrent because it circumvents their commercial upload services by hijacking consumer bandwidth.
It sounds like a terrible idea.
- lallysingh 17y agoIt's letting consumers resell their bandwidth on-demand to (I suppose) whoever needs extra I/O right now. Frankly, I love the idea of reselling bandwidth, it's reminiscent of selling power back to the grid. As for upload speeds/services, I think that's all going to go away pretty soon -- the DSL/FIOS/Cable wars are heating up (at least here in NYC) and they're starting to compete in upload bandwidth. AFAIK, cable-internet systems are usually built with an asymmetric bias for downlink speeds, while the other two aren't.
- jws 17y agoADSL is also built asymmetrically. You can do symmetric DSL but there is a trade off and you get a lower download speed than ADSL. I select my domestic links by upload bandwidth since the download is fast enough.