| Clueless tactics They should take a step back and ask themselves if this is really what they want to do. Making your services less valuable is not a good way to do business.
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| True, but if P2P downloaders are making your service less attractive to other, more moderate, users - then what do you do?
Remember, only a minority of users do more with their high speed links than check email and surf for porn - but they pay extra to do those things FAST. Probably only about 1-5% actually use their high speed links enough to be noticeable - but that minority can slow the entire network down for everyone.
Besides, I suspect most cable ISP's would love to "lose" the minority of customers who consume the most bandwidth. Traffic shaping that targets them is even better, because they still get revenue from them, while ostensibly solving the problem they pose. |
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| Maybe so, but the guys who use their connections the most won't just stop maxing out their connections or allow themselves to be throttled. If the network no longer works for them, they'll go elsewhere. These people are the trailblazers and the most vocal broadband users of all. Single them out and you'll see a large push for other companies to fill the gap and eventually Rogers will lose out as others follow suit to the next best service. Might be Muni Fiber/Wifi, might be BPL, or new cellular or wimax providers who move in, or maybe some kind of mesh networking set up by a few folks who have fiber. Either way, if you lower the service for your happiest and most vocal customers, you're shooting yourself in the foot.
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yabos
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London, ON | reply to radarman
They're not even targeting just heavy users with this. You can use Bittorrent for anything and even if you only wanted to use it once a month you're going to find that it's junk because they're throttling it. |
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