Originally posted by stiiixy
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Back on context, it's your/my connection to do with as you please, and seeing as I am with a very open and fair-use orientated ISP (Internode) in Australia, I feel I can pass that freedom on to the general public. Throttling was just one method to limit the random public accessing and abusing an open network. You also have to consider pBandwidth sharing in increments obviously is another. I wasn't going to list them all, but I chose simple limiting for my personal use case as I dont particularly feel letting hte public pound the living shit out of my 50MB/s connection. You also have to consider permanent residents.
Now, why would I limit the connections? In Australia there is no such thing as 'unlimited' and there's a real reason for it. We're bound by our remoteness effectively. Add a simple number's game to that (2 people per square kilometre, or 23mill over a landmass the size of the mainland US, somewhat mitigated by the high concentration of people living in city-centre's, and increasing due to modernised farming practices) and the costs of providing such massive data allowances is prohibitive. ISP's (or RSP's now) have to buy the quota from the companies supplying the backhaul across the Pacific and Timor sea. Internode does provide free services such as unlimited transfers between other Internoders, their hosting servers (linux distro's, updates etc) and various other local services but unlimited is effectively non-existant. It pops its head up occassionally, but usually disappears.
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