I don't know the details of a network system, but what drives the actual cost of network traffic?
Isn't the internet like a freeway? As in, once it is established, the cars generally incur zero cost to the system?
I wonder if the legal team made the ISP disclose all of their costs to challenge this. Looks like the ISP won and it's hard to know what the case looked like.
Internet traffic should really boil down to just moving packets around and even at full load, those packets shouldn't really cost that much more than at idle. Almost like when a regular computer plays a game that consumes a lot of cpu and gpu resources, vs just doing a text document.
Not being a network guy in the datacenters, I wouldn't even have a guess as to what makes up the demand issues.
Maintenance is needed whether the traffic is high or not. And really, what "maintenance" does internet traffic create vs just running?
I do agree with electrical use, but in reality how much different between "low", "average", and "high" usage? That is the big question that the defense should have got the answers for first.
Can the average gamer tell the times when playing a resource heavy game vs just surfing the web just from the power used?
[ + ] localsal
[ - ] localsal 0 points 11 monthsJun 27, 2024 17:32:41 ago (+0/-0)
Isn't the internet like a freeway? As in, once it is established, the cars generally incur zero cost to the system?
I wonder if the legal team made the ISP disclose all of their costs to challenge this. Looks like the ISP won and it's hard to know what the case looked like.
Internet traffic should really boil down to just moving packets around and even at full load, those packets shouldn't really cost that much more than at idle. Almost like when a regular computer plays a game that consumes a lot of cpu and gpu resources, vs just doing a text document.
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[ - ] Spaceman84 [op] 1 point 11 monthsJun 27, 2024 17:38:25 ago (+1/-0)
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[ + ] localsal
[ - ] localsal 0 points 11 monthsJun 27, 2024 20:55:18 ago (+0/-0)
Maintenance is needed whether the traffic is high or not. And really, what "maintenance" does internet traffic create vs just running?
I do agree with electrical use, but in reality how much different between "low", "average", and "high" usage? That is the big question that the defense should have got the answers for first.
Can the average gamer tell the times when playing a resource heavy game vs just surfing the web just from the power used?