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  From: Dale Long <dalel@loftuscomp.com.au>
  To  : Simon Hackett <simon@internode.com.au>
  Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 11:13:47 +1030 (CST)

Re: AOL? or best ISP

On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Simon Hackett wrote:
> Frankly, a modem is good for about 10 MB's an hour flat out - so 
> you're saying that 'anyone' could easily spend > 50 hours per month 
> running their modem flat out downloading stuff - not casually 
> surfing, but balls-to-the-wall downloading - but without downloading 
> games or music or the like? Something in that scenario doesn't 
> wash...!

Some people like to sit in ICQ, IRC, play net games or do things on
another computer while an automated downloader sucks down the day's
pickings (which are tagged while other files are downloading).

What about the compulsive kernel upgraders? Or the compulsive apt-get 
junkies?

Then there are the napster people and so on...

I would guess that most ISP's base their rates on an average between those
who just chat online and those who run their modems hot leeching files.

More and more people are also starting to use internet voice and video
chatting and communications. What ammount of bandwidth do they use?

Would internode be considering looking at rsync based proxies?

Dale.


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