Although it's a separate conversation (Cost vs Privacy / ISPs policies etc):
Domestic ISPs have caps on data and euphemistically named 'traffic shaping' policies. 
For many users bandwidth isn't free.



On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Lodewijk andré de la porte <l@odewijk.nl> wrote:
2013/9/4 Travis Biehn <tbiehn@gmail.com>
The problem is that bandwidth isn't free; also standing out ;)

Any idea how much fiber/copper goes dark for extended periods of time? Remember Fidonet*? Remember 0.00000...1 == 0! Besides, what's privacy/plausible-deniability worth to you?

*pairing agreements make a lot of bandwidth free both ways, after the physical connections are constructed. Problems arise when destinations aren't preferred ones, but why would you trickle towards not preferred ones? As long as you can onion route towards preferable you'll be green.



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