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Re: Traffic Limiting
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 04:10:32PM -0700, Ben Goren wrote:
[...]
> Chuck is preaching gospel here. Don't worry about total monthly
> transfers. Instead, use ALTQ--as it's designed to do--to ensure
> that no one connection makes everything else suffer.
[...]
Actually, I can think of a use to limit data: Quite a few ISPs here[0]
offer a certain amount of data for free on e.g. their ADSL flatrates.
If you download more, you have to pay e.g. per MB. In such a setup,
having a data limit can be very handy to control cost.
Cheerio,
Thomas
[0] The Netherlands
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