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Re: The status of consumer rate limiting?

  • From: Stephen J. Wilcox
  • Date: Tue Jul 22 20:42:41 2003 
Since some p2p programs now use well known port numbers allocated to other 
things eg port 80, is it even possible to block/rate limit them? And have folks 
attempts at blocking caused this move to use such port numbers which imho is not 
a good thing..

Steve

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Fletcher E Kittredge wrote:

> 
> 
> > Are you controlling peer-to-peer traffic in some way (i.e.
> > rate-limiting, blocking, etc)?
> > 
> 
> no
> 
> > Do you have plans to control peer-to-peer traffic?
> 
> no
> 
> > Are you imposing other total traffic download/upload limits?
> 
> no
> 
> Additional comment:  we market based on "no limits" and so far have
> met our expectations of doing very well against competitors that
> limit.  I don't think limiting is viable in the long run...
> 
> regards,
> fletcher
>