> > Except, of course, people speeding causes other folks problems and > danger; given the actual bandwidth, a *lot* of folks would have to run a > *lot* of servers in order to inconvenience anybody else even a little, > and that's apparently not happening. > That is not true. The cable connection is very asynchronous, biased in the download direction for a user (at least 5:1). Once that upload pipe fills up, the download pipe will start to stall waiting for acks to be sent back up. It only takes a [few] game server[s] and a porn or warez site to do real damage in a neighborhood. You argument sounds a lot like a rationalization. Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net > > -- > ------------------------------------- > There's a widow in sleepy Chester > Who weeps for her only son; > There's a grave on the Pabeng River, > A grave that the Burmans shun, > And there's Subadar Prag Tewarri > Who tells how the work was done. > ------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >