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Comments on news posted 2009-06-23 18:36:33: After taking heat from some Attorneys General and the FCC for throttling upstream P2P traffic for all users regardless of congestion, Comcast earlier this year deployed a new network management system. ..
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 kasar
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Brush Prairie, WA | That's it.. I'm calling them every day for help... from my third party VOIP line.
I can hear fine, but even with their 3 Mbit uplink speed, it's choppy and garbled from here. Maybe I'll see how much I can download while talking to them. The port has QoS and priority on my router, so it should still work.
I'll bet their services use different ports. | |
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1 edit | It's good to see some innovation and experimentation. Clearly, there has to be some limit on the amount of bandwidth a consumer can use. Bandwidth costs money -- often a lot of money, especially in rural areas. And since the Internet is a shared medium, there will never be enough to allow anyone to consume an infinite amount.
We can therefore expect to see a lot of experimentation with bandwidth metering, shaping, throttling, and capping. Some of the innovations will be technical; some economic; some in marketing. And you can expect some of the earliest experiments to be hamhanded and klutzy. That's the nature of experimentation. But eventually, the industry will converge on a few schemes that are palatable to consumers and fair to providers. It's good to see that this process is now underway. | |
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