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From: Oliver Jowett <oliver@randomly.org>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 10:17:15 +1300
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 01:32:37PM +0100, Olof Ekstrom wrote:
> - Clients must either be forced to accept being used as hosts
> (less than tasteful if you ask me) or given a good reason to
> provide it, such as subscription cost reduction or otherwise
> improved service.
People behind traffic-metered connections are going to scream and
yell about this one. I suspect that the game provider is going to
get a much better deal on bandwidth than your average retail
broadband user (here, traffic over a monthly limit costs on the
order of nz$0.20 -- say us$0.10 -- per megabyte).
At a minimum, a "use up to X" setting would be needed, it's not so
much the cost as the unpredictable nature of the traffic that's the
problem.
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Oliver Jowett - oliver@randomly.org - http://www.randomly.org/people/oliver/
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