[H-GEN] cable under linux

[Martin Pool]

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Daniel Quinlan wrote:

> aah, yes, now look closer.  _*ALL*_ traffic is charged with very few exceptions.
> you _will_ pay for all email you receive. if I mail you the Encyclopaedia
> Britannica three times I'll kill your quota in seconds

Receive onto their mail server, or pop down across the cable?  If the
latter, then you can always put size-limiting rules into fetchmail or
your mail client.

> you pay for anything you d/l from the news server _inside_ the cable network
> but not anything you post to it. (work that out)

Well, it's only a limit on download traffic, isn't it?  So of course
posts don't count.

> if any other ISP tried charging you for email and news they'd go under
> but Telstra's marketing dept seem to be taking courses at Microsoft ;)

uqnet has the same rule these days.  Since their costs depend on
utilization as well as the number of connections it's not completely
unreasonable.

> you also pay for traffic d/l'ed from other cable modem users. so kiss network
> gaming or file sharing good bye.

How much traffic can a game generate?  Probably a lot of packets, but
maybe not so much data.

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