[WBEL-users] What to do with idle bandwidth and processor?

[Chris Mason]

If you are on an ADSL line, it’s not spare bandwidth, it’s shared bandwidth.
The resources you want to hog are shared with others on the ISPs network,
and you will be taking from them. Most of the time it will not affect
everyone but during peak times, you will be causing slowdowns.
ADSL is priced attractively because domestic users don't host repositores
etc. If you want to do that you should move to dedicated bandwidth, be ready
for sticker shock.

Chris Mason
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> From: whitebox-users-bounces at beau.org 
> [mailto:whitebox-users-bounces at beau.org] On Behalf Of kirby
> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 3:19 AM
> To: whitebox-users at beau.org
> Subject: [WBEL-users] What to do with idle bandwidth and processor?
> 
> 
> This is more of a generic question that I thought this list 
> might have some
> input on...
> 
> While I am at work or sleeping my computer and DSL don't do much...
> 
> I run SETI at home in the background since it doesn't affect 
> my performance
> at all.
> Occasionally I'll launch bit torrent on a large DVD or maybe 
> Shareaza if I
> have idle bandwidth.
> 
> I'd consider hosting a repository, but I think 256k upload 
> from my machine
> might not be welcome :-)
> 
> So ... Being a civic minded type.. Any ideas on what to do 
> with my spare
> bandwidth and CPU?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Steve
> 
> 
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