No your not stealing someone elses bandwidth Fyodor, it's the ISP job to manage it's bandwidth. But as you look at Max available bandwidth on a per second basis, if it's not being used by anyone it's not stealing is it. It's only when the pipe is maxed out that you have a issue of bandwidth contention.
For example @home modem users have their cable modems programmed to 10Mbit on the downstream and .128Mbit on the upstream. This is a programmable field in the uBR. If they don't want you to use more then 1Mbit then they can change all users or some.
M.
P.S for grins I checked @home's policy.
Bandwidth, Data Storage and Other Limitations
You must comply with the then current bandwidth, data storage and other limitations on the Services.
Users must ensure that their activity does not improperly restrict, inhibit, or degrade any other user's use of the Services, nor represent (in the sole judgment of @Home) an unusually large burden on the network itself. In addition, users must ensure that their activity does not improperly restrict, inhibit, disrupt, degrade or impede @Home's ability to deliver the Services and monitor the Services, backbone, network nodes, and/or other network services.
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@home state's 50 times a 56k modem speed.
We know that a 1 to 3 min download at max speed will not put a undo burden on the network.. Bursting at Max download rate is actually better then many users stuck at a slower rate.
So the whole discussion on use is a judgement call.
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