home fileservers?

Posted Jun 16, 2017 20:49 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: home fileservers? by drag
Parent article: The end for fedfs-utils

> Comcast (and I am sure other ISPs) has been exploring things like bandwidth limits and throttling for some time now. Problem is that it tends to piss off people. Where people have a choice between ISPs they can't really implement these types of restrictions due to market competition.

It's called cherry-picking. If you are going to piss off users, why not selectively piss off the users who are the expensive users you don't really want?

If the average home user uses 40GB (what seems to be the current figure) and the ISP caps at, say, 80GB, then they can provision for 80GB (or maybe less, say 60GB). They then can undercut the competition. The pitch basically is "if you're a normal user you won't notice", and as I say they don't need to provision so much so they don't need to charge so much. "Don't pay to subsidise the bandwidth hogs."

Cheers,
Wol