[AusNOG] News: Telstra to clamp down on peer-to-peer

[Skeeve Stevens]

Absolutely true.

I consulted for an ISP many years ago when bandwidth was very expensive.

We analysed their userbase, and out of their 10k users, we gave them a list
of 100 that they should just terminate their service.

They were horrified about the concept, but when we explained the numbers,
basically being they would they would make more money by getting rid of
those users, they terminated them all within the week.

Essentially their transit was running at 95% saturation and they were
starting to get lots of complaints.  The numbers suggested that terminating
those 100 users would bring it down their load to about 65%, and therefore
make people happier, and meant they wouldnt need to spend the $450/mb at
the time.

About 30% of those users were home users, the rest were internet cafes,
education related and other businesses.

Terminating the 100 actually took their links down to about 55%, and there
was actually no fallout... no one complained in any significant way, and
this was way before facebook and whingepool... so no major issues.

These days... who knows :)  (getup!)

...Skeeve

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On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:05 AM, James Hodgkinson <yaleman at ricetek.net>wrote:

> Telstra will lose market share they don't care about...
>
> From working there a while back, their whole aim was the "low usage,
> high paying" family crowd that just want something that works. It'll
> be interesting to see how that goes in the next ten years or so when
> the more clueful "internet generation" start being the primary
> decision makers...
>
> James
>
> On 6 February 2013 10:01, Jeffrey Sims <jeffy at tehintartubes.net> wrote:
> > Lol what a come back!
> >
> > P2P will never die, Telstra will just lose more market share.
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> > On 06/02/2013, at 9:56 AM, John Lindsay <JLindsay at internode.com.au>
> wrote:
> >
> > those heroic champions over at iiNet who won when you sued them in court
> > about P2P.
> >
> > jsl
> > --
> > John Lindsay - CTO - iiNet
> >
> > On 06/02/2013, at 9:11 AM, Paul Gear <ausnog at libertysys.com.au>
> >  wrote:
> >
> > On 02/05/2013 09:29 PM, Shaun McGuane wrote:
> >
> > That’s a very valid point Skeeve.
> >
> > I am wondering what they classify as a heavy downloader?
> >
> >
> >
> > The customer base willing to pay more for a higher GB download allowance.
> >
> > Isn’t that just good business?
> >
> >
> > This discussion suggests to me that Telstra's decision has nothing to do
> > with bandwidth and everything to do with music/movie interest groups whom
> > Telstra is trying to sweet-talk to increase their margins on Bigpond
> Music,
> > etc.
> >
> > I can hear the sell now: "You should give us an extra 2% wholesale margin
> > because we're doing something about Internet piracy - not like those
> dirty
> > pirates over at iiNet who fought you in court about P2P."
> >
> > Paul
> >
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