RE: [chat] What is "Back channelling" ?

["Minh Van Le" <mvanle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmm. All my searches for "back channel", "back channelling" kept turning up
+50 links of shit. Probably should've tried ``+back +channel site:.au''
instead.

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$author = "Minh Van Le" ;
>
> In TGP Internet's Standard Terms and Conditions, clause 20 states:
>
> 20.	TPG does not under any circumstances allow back channelling. TPG
> reserves the right to charge Customers for any incoming or outgoing
traffic
> if this is breached at 20 cents per MB.
>
> I was unable to clarify the meaning of "back channelling" from a helpdesk
> officer. Would somebody explain to me what "back channelling" means in the
> context of their T&C ?

a back channel is usually used to refer to the route return traffic takes in
typically uni-directional services (ie. cable tv).

http://labs.google.com/glossary?q=back+channel

bingo! :)

just changed my search to:

http://labs.google.com/glossary?q=back+channelling

and it turned up this link:

http://www.tpg.com.au/help_desk/glossarypage.html

that should clear it up... not!

i think the clause basically infers that you shouldn't be using the service
in
an asymetric way in conjunction with another service providing the
complementary data path...

marty