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"Brent P" <tetraethyllead@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> In article <aceh1k$a3f$1@dns3.cae.ca>, Richard wrote:
> > "Brent P" <tetraethyllead@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>
> >> > I run a gaming server to provide online entertainment to
> >> > people who are always downloading new maps and
> >> > voice packs etc ... and 5 gigs can be chewed in hours,
> >> > forget about days.
>
> >> Last I heard, service agreements on DSL and cable modems prohibit
> >> running servers
>
> > I believe that this is the case on Videotron and Sympatico. On I-Stop
it's
> > specifically mentioned in their FAQ that you can run as many servers as
you
> > please, I think AEI lets you run them, too.
>
> Then that's a completely different level of service. To get the sort
> of upload bandwidth that my cablemodem service has on download would
> cost big bucks here in chicago. (Would be nice to get back to the 500k
> upload I had before @home died instead of this 128K throttled upload
> on attbi)

No, I'm not saying they give you better bandwidth in the upstream, it's just
a regular residential DSL service, uploads are capped at 160 kbps like most
others in this area.

> In any case, I really don't feel sorry for those who are running all
> sorts of high-bandwidth, commerical level usage servers on what is
> supposed to be a home service. A speciality website, a mud, something
> small no big deal, people should be allowed to run that sort of thing on
> a home service, they don't take all that much or hog bandwidth
> preventing other customers from using it.  But at gigs per hour ratings,
> it means the usage has grown beyond the home level at really should be
> moved to something more appropiate.

I'm with you until the last sentence, while commercial servers on a
residential line should be a no-no, if I can find non-commercial things to
tie up my bandwidth to the tune of a hundred gigs per month, there's no
reason why I shouldn't. After all the service was originally marketed as
unlimited; hiking up monthly costs _and_ imposing d/l quotas in the same
month is just bad business ethics.

Richard