In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:16:12 +0000
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> 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? 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.
Granted, I'm not in the UK. Apparently British Telecom
has some interesting notions -- 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.
Woo.
[rest snipped for brevity]
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