[CLUE-Tech] ISP Bandwidth Brokering

[ian]

Another thing is they could be proxying certian protocols (ie. ftp, http)
transparently too.  Forcing you to use it.  

ian


On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 02:43:18PM -0500, Gus Huber wrote:
> >From my experience it is possible, that the netscape download could have been using http which has the possibility of being cached at the ISP's end. A lot of smaller isp's and even some larger ones (AOL) utalize caching servers to conserve bandwidth.  A few isp's also use packet shapers.  I worked for one small isp once that used a packet shaper to limit all ftp bandwidth of all users to 1 meg total, and all napster trafic to 256k.  It all depends on the isp, however I would bet it was a caching issue, or just a routing issue where one method was querying a different site than the other method was.
> 
> 	cheers, 
> 		gus huber <gus at pbx.org>
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