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You're paying for sending traffic one-way. Peering agreements are free when both sides are sending an equal amount of traffic to the other.
by Touche 13y ago
You're paying for sending traffic one-way. Peering agreements are free when both sides are sending an equal amount of traffic to the other.
- AnthonyMouse 13y agoPeering agreements are free when no money changes hands. Your argument simplifies to "because Comcast said so."
- Touche 13y agoAnd free peering agreements (called settlement-free agreements) only happen when the transit is more or less balanced.
- smileysteve 13y agoSo, if Netflix just increases data that viewers are sending it, it's okay? So if Netflix adds setInterval('EqualizeBandwidth',1000/24) function EqualizeBandwidth(){ $.post('netflix.com/dosbox', {data:randomLongStringEqualtoVideoFrame+1}); } Then comcast will pay them. (And most subscribers will be fine if they only watch < 31 movies a month given an 8gb movie.) But bonus if netflix causes every one of their customers to hit the 250gb cap and therefore hate comcast. Any politician that has family trying to watch netflix would complain of overages then and shut comcast out.