Comment Re:So is there a form for the ISP (Score 1) 99
"Assume you have more demand for bandwidth than you have bandwidth."
Translation; Company horribly oversold the bandwidth and is too cheap to buy a bigger pipe.
Its not a question of cheapness, or under capacity. If the peak occurs for 5 minutes in the day, and then there is only 40% utilisation of the network, do you add 50% capacity for the 5 minutes per day. Consider the slowdown during the 5 minutes as being a factor of 5 or 10 versus normal non peak response times.
I think that the dowloading of an iso file should be throttled. Perhaps in place of x bits per second download, it is x/2 per second. or perhaps the wget, curl, or other download fire transfer system should be self throttling. You are sharing a resource. An ISO download at supper time is an abuse.