Mark Cuban is having some fun with P2P. He is suggesting that a solution to P2P “over-use” is to charge for upstream traffic. I thought Data Caps were for that purpose? Guess they’re not doing a good enough job.
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Nov 23rd 2007 11:34AM …. So I take it all back. DONT block P2P traffic. Just charge for upstream bandwidth usage like cellphone companies charge for minutes.
Both Shaw and Telus have Data Caps. Also, Telus charges $2 or $5 per month for each additional GB used over the Data Cap. Here is how BC Internet offerings look. The Data Cap ( or monthly data transfer limit) is substantially different in each price category. From this table I’m guessing that Shaw has the majority of BC’s P2P users.
| Product | Price | download speed | upload Speed | per month data transfer limit | Data Cap Penalty |
| Shaw | |||||
| High-Speed-Lite | $22.00/month | 256 Kbps | 126 Kbps | 10 GB | NA |
| High-Speed | $32.00/month | 5 Mbps | 512 Kbps | 60 GB/month | NA |
| Extreme-1 | $42.00/month | 10 Mbps | 1 Mbps | 100 GB/month | NA |
| Nitro | $93.00/month | 25 Mbps | 1 Mbps | 150 GB/month | NA |
| Telus | |||||
| High-Speed-Lite | $16.95/month | 256 Kbps | 128 Kbps | 10 GB | $5/add’l GB |
| High-Speed | $31.95/month | 1.5 Mbps | 512 Kbps | 30 GB/month | $5/add’l GB |
| HS Enhanced | $35.95/month | 3 Mbps | 640 kbps | 30 GB/month | $2 GB/month |
| HS Extreme | $40.95/month | 6 Mbps | 1 Mbps | 60 GB/month | $2 GB/month |
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