 algPassionately apatheticPremium
join:2001-04-10
Houston, TX
kudos:3 | CAPS ArE TEH LAME KTHX Caps on bandwidth are extremeley lame. Although I realize comparing on campus dorm room internet to actual consumer DSL/cable isn't fair, it is my first experience with caps. I d/l "Lost" off of BT, and within 48 hours I was approaching my 9000 MB/week cap. And the transfers weren't even going that fast... 4 up and between 10 and 70 down. These speeds eventually add up of course, but I personally don't consider that to be bandwidth hogging. If it is absolutely necessary for an ISP to impose some kind of caps, then I think "reasonable" throttling is a better way to go. Throttle back that guy that is pushing 100% up and pulling 100% ALL THE TIME, and not the guy that has some "slow" transfers that go for a really long time.
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 SammyBKI'D Rather Be Skiing
join:2000-09-07
Los Angeles, CA | Haha, 9000MB a week, that is pretty weak. My IT department limits us to 10GB/24hours or 3.5GB/2hours and that is a soft limit; you only get called in if you repeatadly abuse the policy. One day of downloading 130GB will not get you busted:).
On the other hand, my old cable company's ISP, 'CableRocket' had something ridiculous like a 5GB per month cap for total data crossing the modem. It makes me happy to see my cable company (»www.wbcable.com )ditched cable rocket to create their own, faster, uncapped broadband (also cheaper at $24/month with Digital Cable) As much as I hate to say it, Willamette Broadband seems to have done the right thing - Priced their package at $39/month, and then gives deep discounts for having various cable packages, not going Comcast style and having a base price of $45 (with modem) and jumping up to $60 with no cable TV.
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 keith2468Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-03
Winnipeg, MB | reply to alg
Throttling is a better way to go.
- Give priority to traffic that looks like it is gaming or voice over IP.
- Give video conferencing a second level of priority.
- Give video surfing and modest file transfers a third level.
- And let massive file transfers use whatever capacity is left over.
But there are 2 problems with this.
1. It requires more computing capacity in the network devices to figure out what to give priority to.
2. It would only be a few weeks before someone published some tool for giving feature-length movie file transfers priority like a gamer or voice over IP.
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