Re: [PLUG] cultural ethics of email and spam

[Matt Ayres <matta@tektonic.net>]

zuzu wrote:
> again, you're assuming too much authority to decide who is "cheap" and
> what the "rules" should be.  furthermore, your appeal to
> "business-class" smacks of "tiered internet".
>
> without citing artificial restrictions, _bandwidth is bandwidth_.
> really you're paying purely for Mbps with several "nines" of
> availability, that's it.
>
>   
Not exactly.  The bandwidth a home user can get these days is due to the 
fact that the broadband companies have done a lot to ensure no servers 
are running and are oversubscribing the capacity of their networks, but 
not enough that you notice.  Servers use a lot of bandwidth so by not 
allowing them the broadband providers can afford to oversubscribe more 
and therefore offer more to be competitive. 

If bandwidth is bandwidth then Verizon should just give everyone a 
100/1000Mbit port and charge them 95th % usage on their circuit based on 
a $/Mbit price that is based on how much they will commit to (ranging 
from $30-125/Mbit).  This is method how hosting companies pay for 
transit. If this is how it worked for the consumer it'd be like going 
back to paying per minute on the telephone and would reduce peoples time 
spent online.

Regards,
Matt
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