Is this going to be for all torrents downloaded or only for the more popular stuff? I'm guessing you'll be using some algorithm to cache only the more in-demand stuff for a certain amount of time, so any subsequent downloads of these will literally fly? Also, if this is the case, I'm just curious to know on what basis you'll decide a particular torrent is 'popular' and deserves cache-ing and also, how will you decide how much time a certain torrent remains in the cache?
It will be completely automated, but in addition, our private torrent tracker will be there to ensure that there would be seeds in our network. This would require users to upload the actual torrent file and add the tracker to their list, but it's one way to guarantee the largest proportion of HZ (free) bandwidth consumption.
Okay can you do speedtest to chennai speedtest.net server. From many days I'm Getting ping from 85-120ms. lets see how much you get!
To all the Vodafone servers I get rubbish pings on speedtest.net, however pings to the servers themselves from command prompt are significantly better (though still not that good). My ping to Colombo's server is decent, and when the Delhi server is coming up as Hughes and not Vodafone, my Delhi pings are alright too. I've been bitching about the same on Twitter lately.
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Ah no, I repeat once again, that on your lowest priced plan costing 2k - I would be happy with 400 GB of download a month. Not a byte above that. But perhaps indirectly you have stated that in any case, the price of 5 bucks (that happens as a consequence), wont be allowed.
Quite the opposite. The FUP is not an FUP in way that it is widely understood - it's simply an idea of what reasonable use is. The numbers that have been published are on the safe side and not an indication that you will be cut off at a certain point.
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2. As far as MTNL goes - Bombay should see the same price as Delhi for the 2 mbits/s sometime next year - which is Rs 2k not Rs5k.
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2. Not likely. The price was raised only recently.
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Oh and I saw your second message just now - yes please ask about the unofficial rate 🙂)
Will do, but, even if it's possible on the financial side, there are other questions that have to be asked, such as, is my company obliged to help you pirate content by giving you a better deal on bandwidth just because you commit to a higher amount and so on. Moreover, what higher amount would we need you to commit to to split the price in half. It becomes quite murky in several respects, but I'll check it out anyway and let you know what advice I am given on the same.
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Hmm yes its pirated - because the companies rip people off anyway to make their millions. So I dont feel morally wrong about doing this hehe. If they priced it like say Moserbear did for their hindi movie dvd's at 50 bucks each, then it would make sense to buy everything. But yeah their quality at 50 bucks was of course abysmal.
I can't dispute that Hollywood etc are profiteering/ripoff artists/etc, I absolutely agree with you. I also agree that for the most part these days what they make is complete and utter trash and rarely worth watching.
Rs10/GB is quite cheap when all things are taken in to consideration - including but not limited to the comparable cost of a comparable service in another country. In Japan and Australia they do unlimited for about Rs3200 and Rs4800 respectively, but the FUP is about 1TB, so these are probably heading towards the lower limits of what we can expect until such time as India has a good hosting infrastructure.
I will grant you, however, that certain countries are very much the exception: unlimited as in unlimited. However, taking a 100mbit/s connection on SK Telecom (South Korea, price about Rs1,400) as an example, I might suggest that even they'd get a bit annoyed if you tried to utilize 2TB a month.
It's all about using the network responsibly, and I'm sure they have policies to reflect that same, so I think basically you'll probably have to make a concession or tradeoff somewhere: financial, quality or something else entirely.
