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 ·AT&T DSL Service
| so what quote:
"What traffic shaping does, is, if the user won't limit their incoming download requests themselves, then the traffic shaping will do it for them. Thus saving CPU and memory of their connecting router for the rest of the users that connect through it."
gheezer hit it right. sharing is one thing, but leaving your program at default of unlimited connections can really mess some things up. I can't understand leaving max everything on by default, and I do think an ISP has the obligation to their customers to help 'shape' things for them if a few connections are hogging everything. There used to be (way back...) a kind of unspoken code by which people shared connectivity 'nicely' by only allowing so many connections at a time (about 3-5 if I remember)... those days have gone it seems...
Don't get me wrong, in a perfect world, connection sold at xMbps should be able to use that 24/7 if they so choose, much like a telephone w/unlimited long distance, with zero forms of restriction.
Can't happen the way things are set up today. Dsl might work a little better since it's more 'switched' than a bus type cable setup, but the overall infrastructure isn't there yet.
Controlling the available bandwidth is one of the 'nicer' ways of doing things for now, and it'll probably get "worse" before it gets 'better' for anyone.
For now, all those mega sharers should just shut their traps and play a little more carefully.
There are still 'nice' ways of getting a good speeds out of things, you don't have to leave all those settings 'wide open' on whatever software you use. ..Then again, someone will probably find another way around all of it to use their speed at max potential again.. cat and mouse, cat and mouse, cat and mouse, cat and... packet 'shaping' - can I get a hexagon shaped packet over here please? I think that last one was an octagon, this guy needs only triangles! Quick, somebody fire up the polygonal packet shaper 2007 before this guy starts sending out tetrahedrons again! |
