| reply to Alpine
Re: IDIOTS! Sure it's symbiotic. Just as my laundry detergent "dirt-o-way" needs a store to sell it.
But if the store finds itself in need of more room for more products, does it pass on the cost to expand the store to me and my detergent? Or does it drop my detergent from the shelf due to the size of the product? Or does is suck it up and take an immediate loss and later reap the rewards?
ISPs that house content providers are making their money on the amount of BW consumed by the provider via the contract that was signed for the service. The end users are limited by the ISPs on the amount of bandwidth they are alotted (comcast = 6mbps max). It is then the ISPs responsibilty to allow or deny (I shouldn't say deny but you know what I mean) access to spcific content that they feel their network cannot handle. This, of course, would cause 56k  user to leave ISP A and go to ISP B. ISP A doesn't want to lose customers so they try to extort content providers for more money to upgrade their network. They claim the end user would have to pay for the upgrades. Well, the end user (me) won't have any of that. ISP B is cheaper and they're already ready for the content that ISP A can't handle. BYE BYE ISP A!
Sounds like some ISPs just need to go out of business. |
