| Actions Speak Louder than Words Cablecos already DO some of these QOS dividing, stir-frying, and tiered data service. Just by different names:
1. Cablemodem capping/throttling (pet peeve)
2. Upstream limiting/throttling
3. Node saturations (by design)
4. Taking unfair advantage of peering relationships on internet backbone providers (cogeco comes to mind)
5. 10, 15, 30 megabit plans emerging due to fios (not much else in telco land as far as upgrades are concerned to be worried about by cablecos)
6. Site and application packet shaping (namely p2p and usenet stuff mostly), some have tried to ban apps such as bittorrent and napster clones) Thus, eroding the value of the connection to begin with I might add-- why do people pay you money? to go to sites you approve of only?
BTW, despite announements of 50 & 100mbit services by cablevision, they've yet to materialize. And if they do, Verizon will have something to do/say about it! |
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 NY TelPremium
join:2004-04-09
Smithtown, NY
kudos:3 | Well said. Nothing let's you send a message to the cable companies and telcos like voting with your wallet.
Competition is a great thing. |
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| said by NY Tel:Well said. Nothing let's you send a message to the cable companies and telcos like voting with your wallet. Competition is a great thing. Fortunate for them consumer laziness is a lot more prolific, especially when enhanced with consumer ignorance.  |
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 DanTrailer Park SupervisorPremium
join:2002-12-17
Eh? | reply to actionsspeeak
Sure that was Cogeco? Sure it wasn't Cogent? (Cogeco is a Cable ISP in Canada)
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My name is Dan.
You want more.
I get it.
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said by actionsspeeak :
4. Taking unfair advantage of peering relationships on internet backbone providers (cogeco comes to mind)
I don't know of any Cable companies that have peering agreements with backbone providers with which they can take any kind of advantage. Cable companies have transit agreements with backbone providers, which they PAY for. Can't be unfair when you're paying for the bandwidth.
You must be thinking about Cogent, a backbone provider that had a peering dispute with Level(3). |
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