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Matt 26z · 08-30-2008, 07:19 PM

They are just preparing for the future when TV programming has a strong online presence. NBColympics.com 24/7 live streaming coverage was the coming out party.

This is also the real story behind the Net Neutrality fight. The telcos do not want TV piggybacking them for a free broadcasting ride.

eroticsexxx · 08-31-2008, 01:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Matt 26z

They are just preparing for the future when TV programming has a strong online presence. NBColympics.com 24/7 live streaming coverage was the coming out party.

This is also the real story behind the Net Neutrality fight. The telcos do not want TV piggybacking them for a free broadcasting ride.

And we have a winner! (From one aspect that is)

Although I'm in a different country, with no caps, I can see the potential ramifications in these bandwidth caps, at least for business owners who stream live like I do.

For example, from one of my offices I have two live television feeds streaming @ 300kbps and 6 radio station feeds @ 40 kbps, all pushing out over a fiber optic connection to my server farm which in turn distributes it to my users.

That office's bandwidth each month for streaming alone amounts to just about 260GB of data per month:

(300x2) + (40x6)=840kbps
840 kbps = 0.00010013580322265625 GBps
30 days = 2592000 secs
2592000 x 0.00010013580322265625 = 260 GB bandwidth per month (rounded up)

That's a lot of data, but that still doesn't include the VPN connections I make with other offices or any of the uploading and downloading I do on that same connection.

A cap would hurt my business significantly if I was using Comcast in the US or does the cap only apply to home users?

mattz · 08-31-2008, 01:42 AM

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Originally Posted by potter

They even stated this will effect less than 1% of their clients. You guys are really showing your lack of knowledge in this thread. 250Gb / month is 8.4Gb per day. No one does that kind of transfer. If you had Sirius running, at it's highest bit rate, every second of every day for 30 days - it would only be 40 Gb. To go through that much with torrents. It would be roughly 125 movies every single month. Or 375-625 TV Shows per month.

Most people don't even have enough drive space to last more than a month or two at that rate. Seriously, get your heads out of your asses. The sky is not falling.

you just proved you dont know that much, i dont run/own any illegal tube sites, and I use way more than that uploading/downloading easily

08-30-2008, 07:19 PM	#51
Matt 26z So Fucking Banned Industry Role: Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: ¤ª"˜¨๑۩۞۩๑¨˜"ª¤ Posts: 18,481	They are just preparing for the future when TV programming has a strong online presence. NBColympics.com 24/7 live streaming coverage was the coming out party. This is also the real story behind the Net Neutrality fight. The telcos do not want TV piggybacking them for a free broadcasting ride.