The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:16:12
> +0000 <2840763.HGDlbCDJkK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Venice Project would break many users' ISP conditions
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>> | Internet television system The Venice Project could break users'
>> | monthly internet bandwith limits in hours, according to the team
>> | behind it.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/03/venice_project_would_break_users_isp_conditions/
> 320 megabytes per hour?
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| One hour of viewing is 320MB downloaded and 105 Megabytes uploaded,
} which means that it will exhaust a 1 Gigabyte cap in 10 hours.
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My ISP caps at 50GB/month *peak*, with zero cap for off-peak.
IIRC the peak period is sixteen hours, so:
320MB + 105MB = 425MB
425MB = 0.415039062GB
0.415039062GB x 16Hrs = 6.640624992GB (per day, peak)
50GB/6.640624992GB = 7.5 (days)
So this would exhaust my monthly bandwidth allowance in a little over
a week of continuous use, just using Venice, and not allowing for
other network activity.
Yikes!
> That's about 89 kB/s. My DSL line can run at almost twice that
> speed -- for downloading only; I'm not sure what my upload speed is.
At the last measurement, my speeds were:
Downstream 5.3 Mb/s (5440 kb/s inc. overheads)
Upstream 0.4 Mb/s (382.4 kb/s inc. overheads)
5440 kb/s = 680 kB/s, (7.6 times faster) :)
Although the line syncs at 8Mb/s, and I can achieve around 7 -> 7.4
from e.g. BlueYonder's FTP server.
However, the *speed* is not the issue, it's the overall usage Vs the
cap.
> Granted, I'm not in the UK. Apparently British Telecom has some
> interesting notions
BT suck; it's unanimous (over here anyway). Only little old ladies and
total Dilberts use them (for Internet).
> -- e.g., one plan apparently has a limit of 2 GB per month.
> Presumably, this is similar to the logic that gave us "off-peak"
> minutes on mobiles.
>
> BTW, 2 GB/month is about 772 bytes per second. That's about 3 times
> the speed of a *very* old 2400 baud modem.
I've still got one, brand new (NOS) and never opened, cira
1980-something. Guess what brand ... Commodore.
> Woo.
Ya.
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